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Article: THE ODYSSEY OF JAPANESE COLONISTS IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC [*].
- Article from:
- The Geographical Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
- Author:
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ABSTRACT. In an agreement formalized with the Japanese government in 1956, Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina of the Dominican Republic extended an offer of refuge for Japanese immigrants seeking to improve their fortunes in the late 19505 by taking up residence in Trujillo's vaunted "Paradise of the Caribbean." The provision of sites ultimately unfavorable for colonization, lack of infrastructure, failure of the Japanese government to address the complaints of the colonists, and political instability within the Dominican Republic led to the abandonment of five of the eight colonies. By 1962 only 276 of the 1,319 original colonists remained; the rest had either ...
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