1. Enclave of Brazilians Tests Insular Japan.
- Author
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NORIMITSU ONISHI
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MIGRANT labor , *RECESSIONS , *JAPANESE people , *BRAZILIANS , *LABOR supply - Abstract
Facing labor shortages back in 1990 but ever wary of allowing in foreigners, Japan made an exception for Japanese-Brazilians. With their Japanese roots, names and faces, these children and grandchildren of Japanese emigrants to Brazil would fit more easily in a society fiercely closed to outsiders, or so the reasoning went. In the two decades since then, despite periodic economic downturns like the current one, the number of Japanese-Brazilian workers in Japan has kept growing. They are clustered in industrial regions dotted with factories supplying familiar companies like Honda, Sanyo and Toyota, whose headquarters gave this city in central Japan its name. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]
- Published
- 2008