ANCHIETA, Brazil--After more than 75 years, officials in the Brazilian state of San Paulo apologized for persecuting Japanese-Brazilian immigrants before and after the end of World War II.

On Wednesday, the president will take part in the Brazil–Japan Business Forum, with 500 executives from both nations, and ...

Sao Paulo--The Brazilian government on Thursday apologized for human rights violations in the persecution and incarceration of Japanese immigrants in the years during and after World War II.

Castanho added that the scallops would enrich not only Japanese cuisine but also Brazilian dishes. There are an estimated 1,5 million Nikkei in Brazil, mainly in the rich states of Sao Paulo.

Muriel Kitagawa, a young mother of Japanese descent, wrote to her brother Wes, a medical student at the University of Toronto. "We have been tempered for the anti-Japanese feeling these long years.