One hundred years ago, a wave of poor Japanese migrants resettled in Brazil to work on coffee plantations.
Today, their descendants number around one million and are one of Brazil’s most successful minority groups.
In the 1990s Japan offered this Diaspora work visas and close to 300 thousand Japanese-Brazilians have since returned to their ancestral homeland.
But now, due to the global economic recession, many are heading back to Brazil.
From Nagoya, reporter Jason Strother has more.