08/11/04 21:50:36
[Facing the Future] Unit7 Moving Out です。
1.As noted in the last chapter, over many centuries Japan has received immigrants from China, Korea, and other
parts of east Asia, but at least in recorded history there has never been a sudden large-scale immigration to this country.
There have, however, been some rather large-scale emigrations.
(Be careful with "immigration" and "emigration"; they look and sound similar but have exactly opposite meanings.)
2.Between 1885 and 1920, for example, about half a million Japanese (out of a total population less than half the size of today's!)
left to start new lives in the U.S., mostly in Hawaii or along the Pacific Coast of the mainland.
Beginning shortly after World War Ⅱ, the focus of emigration changed to South America,
with roughly a quarter of a million people leaving Japan for Brazil and neighboring countries from the 1950s through the '70s.
Both of these waves of emigration were actively encouraged by the Japanese government,
which offered loans and other incentives to citizens to move overseas.
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