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Some of the hundreds of Chinese who came to Japan for farm jobs gathered after work on a bridge in the center of Kawakami, Japan in July 2008
Monday, Aug. 18, 2008

Open quoteI feel this is not Japan anymore.Close quote

  • SHIMITSU YUITO,
  • construction worker, on the recent influx of Chinese laborers to the farming community of Kawakami, Japan, which has become dependent on migrant labor because of its aging rural population
Photo: Ko Sasaki / The New York Times / Redux | Source: International Herald Tribune