Migrants who came to Japan go back to the future in Brazil
By Toshi Maeda in Toyohashi, Japan | China Daily | Updated: 2012-04-14 07:40
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Customers looking at jewellery in a shop window at a shopping mall in Rio de Janeiro, in January. Even though Brazilians still make up the third-largest ethnic minority group in Japan, over the last few years many thousands have gone back across the Pacific as Brazil's economy raced ahead. Vanderlei Almeida / AFP File Photo |
Yamato Hirai used to struggle to get into the starting line-up when he arrived at his local soccer field to play alongside his fellow Japanese-Brazilians.
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