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Japan Pulls Out Welcome Mat from Under Brazilian Dekasseguis

Why blame just Japan? All the Brasilians who went to Spain, Italy, France,etc; are going to meet the same fate of the "Dekkasseguis". Nobody wants to talk about why all our "Dekksasseguis" went to the lands of their ancestors?

I think we are going to hear more about people returning "home" to join the unemployed (or underemployed) mass. May be they will vote differently in the next years elections.

American Buffalo, bovine, really stupid. When one of them is attacked by a predator, usually a young or sick one and therefore more vulnerable, and falls into the mud, if he is able to escape and tries to rejoin the herd, the others are not able to recognize him because he is now covered with mud and maybe limping. So they shun him, do not allow him to reenter the herd, and move on, leaving him behind.

Their excuse is theat they are really stupid though powerful animals.

We know that Asians are not stupid. We just don't know why they act the way they do in certain contexts.

Whereas when an American or Englishman comes home after spending decades abroad, he is welcomed and enters into life again as though he had never left.

I have friends here in Brazil who were actually born in Japan and yet Japan cuts them no slack and treats them like second class citizens. One of them lived here for years, went back and worked in Japan for fifteen years, got to retirement age and they shipped him back here.

Go figure. Weird. Better yet, don't figure, wasting your time. Asian Inscrutability. The big smile means they are shutting you out, not welcoming you with open arms.

Nanking. Remember?

I have friends here in Brazil who were actually born in Japan and yet Japan cuts them no slack and treats them like second class citizens. One of them lived here for years, went back and worked in Japan for fifteen years, got to retirement age and they shipped him back here.

Some years ago, I read an article about Japan encouraging their senior citizens to emigrate to other countries after their retirement. That was supposed to reduce the over crowding of their cities as wellas ease the pressure on their health system. I didn't place much faith in the news story at that time,but after hearing your friend´s personal experience and reading this article, I tend to believe it.

illeagle if the US sent them packing how would it affect brasil in the next 8 years .
all the people that have lived out of country would form there own party , and elecit people with the smarts to make a change in brasil .

but more than likley they would just rob bigger

not help there country and people

It doesnt happens ONLY to Brazilians.
Filipinos, Pakistanese workers fired from the Gulf states is no different story.
Many Europeans expats in finance who were sent to work in London or Singapore or elsewhere were also fired. Not a different story !
Many Mexicans or others Latino workers, employed legally or not in the USA,were also fired.

Same for MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF LOCALS in Brazil, USA, Europe, or other developed & emerging nations were also fired.

Why underlining SPECIFICALLY AND ONLY the Brazilians working in Japan or elsewhere ??????

I must say I dont catch this critic, except that Brazilians STRONGLY believe that Brazilians working abroad have more right than other foreigners and even more rights than locals in these foreign countries.

What about the legal and illegal foreign workers...IN BRAZIL ???????
Not only you did not have that many in order to protect your own labor force, thus of course you had LESS of them to fire.
But then Brazil criticizes the developed nations more....BECAUSE THEY WERE MORE OPEN !!!!!

Typically brazilian style critics !

now in the bahamas the government has sent the nonbelongers home the
ultra rich have no one to clean there yards ,do there house work .
as the locals get there money from the queen and dont have to work .
only to get ahead

the alantis hotel is having a time of it trying to
maintain the place as the comon workers were let out
not fired but removed of the islands take home
there are 9 brasilians in jail there that came from england
to work but were illeagle in england so they are illeagle in the bahamas .

will more than likley be sent to trindad by mail boat and then taken to chaves land where millions of brasilians have moved

This japanese story is about ethnic japanese, some born in Japan, not nondescript guest workers.

Charley Hotel Charley?

I liked your revealing the full name of our distinguished fellow blogger! He can be slightly mule headed at times, but not all the times.

That was a good one, Ric.

Nobody has addressed the fact that the LDP has offered the migrant workers $3,000 each if they leave the country (in addition to a one-way ticket to Brazil) under the condition that they agree to never work in Japan again.

The whole situation is absolutely absurd. Especially when you consider that this rule applies to the children of these workers, who will also be banned from working in Japan for life - that is not a necessary measure, either. It's unjustifiable and downright mean.

Everybody realizes the imminent crisis the Japanese are going to face with the serious shrinkage of a young generation. In order to sustain its large economy and the growing population of retired, the Japanese are inevitably going to have to recruit a mass of foreigners to work and sustain the people and economy. They are sending a hostile message to prospective migrant workers, for no understandable reason. I can only think that they are blinded by racism so much that they cannot act rationally or with foresight.

They are using the economic climate as an opportunity to kick out the "foreigners" (most of them are ethnically Japanese) and cultivating their xenophobia and racism. What they are doing is unethical, racist, nonsensical, and backwards.

I do understand that migrant workers are losing their jobs all over the globe in this economic climate, and having to go home. What is so upsetting about Japan in this matter is their banning of these people (for two generations!) who have worked hard and honestly for several decades, who Japan owes a lot to.

I am a half Japanese American and I am also an "outsider" to the people of the country as the Brazilian Japanese are, because I look different. The treatment I get is very upsetting whenever I visit, but this is a whole new level. I am depressed and ashamed for this country.

I am a half Japanese American and I am also an "outsider" to the people of the country as the Brazilian Japanese are, because I look different. The treatment I get is very upsetting whenever I visit, but this is a whole new level. I am depressed and ashamed for this country.

Your comments are quite refreshing, SRS. For me, your viewpoints are not very different from our distinguished and honorable fellow blogger Ric.The original Japanese immigrants, Nisseis and Sanseis in this country are very fine people and have contributed to its development. But unfortunately, many sane Brazilians think that they like the Italian, German ,etc; descendants have been trying to emigrate to the countries of their ancestors, due to the incompetence and inability of our "Rulers" to provide job opportunities to them. My point is that the Brasilians of Nipponic origin are not only the ones that are being treated shabbily in the country of their Grandparents. It applies to fine German Brasilians, Italo Brasilians, etc;

My questions: What caused the mass exodus? This exodus has been happening since the late 80´s. Why? I am not a sociologist, anthropologist, etc; But, I am launching some thought provoking questions.

BTW, what really upset me about Japan was when the son of a friend of mine (Sansei) went to that country to spend a year, he was branded as a "Gaijin". Why do it to an 18 year old kid?

I think it's appalling what Japan is doing to Brazilian Japanese. I'm a sansei (third generation Japanese American). Japan has zero population growth. They are on the verge of a severe labor shortage. Who will do the labor 10 years from now? 20 years? I can't believe they treat Brazilian Japanese like garbage. It will come back to haunt them. They actually treat white people from the U.S. better than Nikkei Japanese.

The Japanese have stopped surprising me many years ago. History is full of examples where they show that they are among the most racist on the planet. The irony is that they make it increasingly hard for new workers to enter Japan, while their country is disappearing into irrelevance because of the declining birthrate. The only way out for Japan is increased immigration. But they are too (racist) blind to see that.

The reality is that Brazil's demographics and economy are increasing rapidly relative to other countries. If at all possible, anyone should try to stay and work in Brazil. The future looks brighter there than in Japan.

They need to go back to their countries, period. They have brought nothing but crime and sluts. They are lazy thieves.
I admire Japan for kicking them out. More and more countries will do the same because they are nasty.

I am a firm believer of payback, we do not need to ship the old Japanese living in Brazil back to Japan, but I do not feel like buying ANYTHING Japanese if I can avoid it. It may be a one woman's fight, but any bit helps.
If I were a Brazilian living in Japan, I would go back home and never want to set foot in that country again. I know crisis has hit hard everywhere, but I also believe in fair and intelligent solutions. The foreign minister answered to the question about the harshness of the measures taken by saying that he doesn't believe Japan should become a mixed ethnic country.
If it were a German saying so, there would be hell to pay...

For the time being, I just say leave Japan to the Japanese and let's have a better time elsewhere. Rebuilding home would be an excellent idea for starters.

how charming of you!

Back in 1924, Japan was a developing country which was poorer than Brazil and these Japanese migrant workers wanted to better their life and left Japan for what they thought was greener pastures. Now, they find that Japan became the second largest economy in the world and wanted to come home. I say that just as an investor who is caught on the wrong side of the trade cannot go back on his investment, they should own up to being caught on the wrong side of the trade, and when they jumped ship, they had made their choice so they should live with it.