(EN) Hiroko Tabuchi, Japan Keeps a High Wall for Foreign Labor, in The New York Times, 2 gennaio 2011. URL consultato il 19 dicembre 2013.
«[...] the government did little to integrate its migrant populations. Children of foreigners are exempt from compulsory education, for example, while local schools that accept non-Japanese-speaking children receive almost no help in caring for their needs. Many immigrant children drop out, supporters say, and many foreign workers [...] say they want to return to Brazil.»