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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 368396, member: 39&quot;]The article explicitly says that this was checked before the coin was designed. But what can one do if this migrants association tells the Japanese mint that copyright wise it is OK to use the monument, and then, quite a while later, it turns out that maybe somebody else is the copyright owner? Here is another article about this: <a href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20080501a9.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20080501a9.html" rel="nofollow">http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nb20080501a9.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not really, I think. If the economic conditions that made those Japanese leave the country (and go to Brazil or elsewhere) still prevailed, such a coin may be a little strange. But that does certainly not apply to today&#039;s Japan. So you could even interpret this as &quot;see, we managed to get over this crisis and are doing fine now&quot;. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Guess that for a country where most of the population has an immigration background, it would indeed be odd to commemorate citizens leaving. But what applies to one country does not necessarily apply to others. Now if people of Japanese descent actually tend to be discriminated against in Brazil (don&#039;t know about that), this could in my opinion be a reason not to issue such a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another thing is that apparently both Brazil and Japan plan to issue coins on this occasion. In other words, collectors in two big countries may be tempted to buy both coins, hehe.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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