Origins, historical development, and patterns of Japanese migration to Latin America -- The first save of Japanese migration to Latin America -- The second wave: Post-World War II period -- Latin American emigration as a national strategy -- Building the emigration machinery -- Post-World War II...

Hitherto Japan’s migration policy in a nutshell read “exclusively highly skilled migration” and “exclusively temporary migration.” Faced with the enormous speed of Japan’s demographic change, however, the government has started to open up the national labor market to foreign workers....