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Japan Is So Desperate to Increase Its Birth Rate That Tokyo Is Trying Out a New Idea: Free Daycare (www.xatakaon.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They have a surprising amount of immigration from Brazil.

It's odd though, because the people immigrating to Japan from Brazil are the adult children of people who previously immigrated to Brazil from Japan. Not that that doesn't happen with other countries.

It's just an interesting tidbit I learned not that long ago that I really didn't expect.

[–] captainlezbian 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I had to visit a factory in Japan over the summer and was shocked at how much Portuguese I saw in a small city in Japan. And how many people I saw who were clearly of mixed Japanese and Brazilian ancestry

[–] NikkiDimes 1 points 3 weeks ago

Kind of goes full circle with Portugal being some of the earliest traders arriving at Japan, lol.