Brazil, Japan

This past July I went to the city of Ogaki in central Japan and the first words I heard when I stepped out of the train were in Portuguese. Pleasantly surprised, I looked around, and noticed there were more than a dozen Brazilians speaking in their own cheerful way! Some of them looked totally Japanese, some of them mixed. It seems there are more than three thousand Brazilian workers in the area. They have their own food market, bars, and a restaurant. Japan, long time believed to be a very homogenious country, is in fact being converted into a very visibly multicultural country! What a welcome change from its former tedious self...