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In the America's with David Yetman

The Rainforest Nesei: Japanese Immigrants in the Amazon

Season 2 Episode 203

In the early 1920s, a small group of Japanese peasants received a land grant deep in the vast forests of the Amazon. Today their descendants have become prosperous farmers, raising tropical crops and pepper, all the while protecting large tracts of primary tropical forest.

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