Japan families come to Dominican Republic
Tagged: Dominican Republic“Thousands of poor Japanese families came to the Dominican Republic in the postwar 1950s, encouraged by the Tokyo government to take the offer of free land and a new life. But the soil was bad and the Caribbean nation would soon be plunged into political chaos. In less than a decade nearly all the Japanese were gone.
Their story is a striking example of the convulsion that gripped post-World War II Japan. The ripples were still being felt last week, when the emigrants finally won an apology from their prime minister.”
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July 25th, 2006
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