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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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