ARTICLE: In Traditionally Insular Japan, A Rare Experiment in Diversity, By Lori Aratani, Washington Post, October 6, 2007; Page A12
Demographically speaking, this experiment-seguing-into-the-new-reality has been in the works for over a decade. For Japan, the truth gets denied ("We'll technologize the problem away!"), then opposed ("Maintain our unique identity!"), then accepted ("We must change who we are.").
Within a decade, you'll read stories of Japan's cultural "opening" that your parents would find "inconceivable!"
(Thanks: Vonne Barnett)
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"Within a decade, you'll read stories of Japan's cultural "opening" that your parents would find "inconceivable!""
We'll see if it extends past expat Japanese. It's interesting that while the article mentions a large contingent from Peru, it doesn't mention Fujimori, the ex-president of that country. And Japan has been a substantial trading partner for Brasil for decades. (Before Fujimori, I think the highest-placed Nisei was a finance minister of Brasil; and I remember being told in the mid-1980s that Varig Airlines busiest int'l route was Sao Paulo-Tokyo.)
What this strikes me as is more of a "right of return" movement that also has the added benefit of the labor implications. As to whether the Japanese will go beyond that... again, we'll see.
Posted by Hal O'Brien | October 8, 2007 6:16 PM