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TOYOHASHI IS A MEDIUM-SIZED city in the middle of Japan. Local residents will tell you that their home city has a population of about 400,000, makes some of Japan's most delicious chikuwa (fish cake) and has an excellent surfing beach. They might even point out Toyohashi's futuristic Shinkansen station.
In short, Toyohashi is an average sort of place in a conservative and some might say ultra-Japanese part of Japan. But Toyohashi also has an energetic and conspicuously un-Japanese population: 10,000 South American immigrant workers, most of whom are Brazilians and Peruvians.
What makes Toyohashi special is that it could possibly provide a template for ...