@samuelszuchan: In 1990, Japan created a visa for descendants of Japanese emigrants. The justification was DNA. If your grandparents left Japan for Brazil, you were Japanese enough to come work in the factories. By 2008, 312,000 Brazilians were living in Japan. They filled the jobs Japanese workers wouldn't take: auto parts, electronics assembly, food processing. The 3K jobs: difficult, dirty, dangerous. Then Lehman collapsed. Japanese exports fell 46 percent. And in March 2009, the government printed a double-sided form in Portuguese offering 300,000 yen per worker and 200,000 per family member to board a plane back to Brazil. The condition: you and your children could never return on that visa. A worker in a Hamamatsu employment office stood up and asked: are you saying even our children cannot come back? A government official named Masahiro Watai answered calmly: that is correct, they will not be able to come back. These were people whose grandparents had left from the port of Kobe. Some had grandmothers still alive in Japanese villages. Close to 20,000 took the money. Japan's Brazilian population dropped from roughly 300,000 to about 200,000. A former health minister named Jiro Kawasaki called it humanitarian assistance. A sociologist named Angelo Ishi called it an insult. The same bloodline doctrine that opened the door in 1990 closed it in 2009. The doctrine didn't change. The economy did. And that tells you what the doctrine was actually for.

Hallandsen🇩🇰 :

Racism is a tool not an end.

Sakafan_98071 :

This is great. Most of those descendants weren’t pure Japanese anyways.

David :

I freaking love your videos. Always very interesting! Keep them coming please!

Štefan :

same thing happend to Serbs who were living in Croatia. Serbian gov considered them as Serbs, even war started in 1991 cos of that. 10 years later when most of Serbs from Croatia migrated to Serbia, Serbian gov said, you have Croatian passport get out of Serbia, you are not real Serb. And half a milion Serbs with Croatian passport were kicked out of Serbia just like they were kicked out of Croatia 10 years ago. They all went to EU, CND and USA

eloş ꨄ :

Kali :

Brasil mencioned

anass :

Do you have a YouTube channel where you post longer videos?

M.Belotti :

Love Japan 🥰

HC :

Japan is underhated

University of Tiktok :

japan is underhated for sure

dcarnelossi :

in capitalism we are just slaves.

☆ :

Racism isn’t about genes. It’s politics

AngelCaido :

Imperial Japan never went away, it just rebranded.

J :

An insult it is.

soOShi :

Although it was described as “a call for people to come,” in reality it was almost compulsory

Mauro 🇦🇷 :

Japan is cold.

356BC :

in capitalism you are numbers you produce.

joebsabraham :

japan is underhated

yosaf king :

So sad

DocDoz001 :

Politicians, always approbating and reprobating as it suits them.

Vida Fortner :

How many Japanese in Brazil

Sharan Garlapati :

2021 😔

Paulymike :

I remember living in Toyohashi and Hamamatsu back in 2020. It was the first Japanese people thought I was Brazilian and Brazilian people thought I was Brazilian as well. It was interesting. 😂

Edward Sallow :

Paid and optional

Braddock812 :

Japan rocks