Brazil apologizes to racist maltreatment, detention of Japanese during WWII

Brazil’s truth commission has apologised for the government’s “racist” maltreatment and detention of its large Japanese community during the second world war in a step that could open the way to compensation claims. Twenty-five years after similar steps by the US and Canada, the move to make amends has been welcomed by groups representing the 1.5 million migrants and second and third-generation descendants in Brazil who now make up the biggest ethnically Japanese population outside of Japan. Read Article