As population declines, Japan considers importing foreign workers — then thinks again

[Foxy Brown]

At the Brazil Plaza shopping center, Carlos Watanabe thinks back on 12 lonely years as a factory worker in Japan — and cannot find a single thing to praise except the cold mug of Kirin lager in his hand.

He and his bar mates, all Japanese-Brazilian, have plenty of work and steady incomes, but they also have many complaints about their adopted home: that they are isolated, looked down upon, cold-shouldered by City Hall.