In the Americas With David Yetman

The Rainforest Nisei: Japanese Immigrants In The A

Season 2, Episode 3 of 10

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

Previously Aired

Day
Time
Channel
9/22/2013
6:30 p.m.
11/20/2013
10 p.m.
11/21/2013
5 a.m.
12/25/2013
9:30 p.m.
12/25/2013
11:30 p.m.
12/26/2013
12:30 a.m.
12/26/2013
6 a.m.
1/29/2014
10 p.m.
1/30/2014
5 a.m.
4/9/2014
10 p.m.
4/10/2014
5 a.m.
1/14/2015
1:30 p.m.
1/14/2015
10 p.m.
4/1/2015
6:30 p.m.
4/1/2015
11 p.m.
4/1/2015
11:30 p.m.
4/2/2015
4/2/2015
6 a.m.
5/27/2015
6:30 p.m.
5/28/2015
5/28/2015
11 p.m.
5/28/2015
11:30 p.m.
5/29/2015
6 a.m.
1/12/2016
6:30 p.m.
1/12/2016
11 p.m.
AZPM is a service of the University of Arizona and our broadcast stations are licensed to the Arizona Board of Regents who hold the trademarks for Arizona Public Media and AZPM. We respectfully acknowledge the University of Arizona is on the land and territories of Indigenous peoples.
The University of Arizona