The Brazilian government issued its first formal apology Thursday for its persecution of Japanese immigrants during World War II.
The apology aims to restore the dignity Japanese Brazilians lost due to the government's past atrocities, 79 years after the end of the war. Brazil has the world's largest community of people of Japanese descent outside of Japan itself.
The Brazilian amnesty commission, an advisory panel to the government, reached a unanimous decision to give the apology.
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