On Tue, 2 May 2000, Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> The thing is that the imigration law changed at the beginning of the
> 90' (92?) to make room for 'acceptable' foreigners as cheap labor, ie
> all the descendants of Japanese nationals who now live in south
> america for ex (there were massive emigration waves at the end of the
> 19th century, from here to S.A).
I have a dumb question Jean-Christophe: what were the forces behind those massive emigration waves? That was right during the time of opening up and modernization, right? And why to South America?
Michael
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