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This 10 page paper discusses the history of the Dominican Republic and its struggles with its neighbor Haiti, and how these incursions led the Dominican dictator Trujillo to invite first Spanish, and then Japanese, immigrants to settle on the island. It also discusses the fact that the conditions that the newcomers found were substantially different from those they had been promised, and that both the Japanese government and that of the Dominican Republic failed to given the newcomers the support they needed. Finally, it discusses the fact that most of the Japanese were repatriated or encouraged to settle in other Latin American countries; this included those that were born on the island. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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File: D0_HVDomRep.rtf
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part of their history for centuries. This is a well-known part of the countries history. Whats not as well known is that the Dominican Republic asked Japanese farmers to settle
on the island in the 1950s. The experiment, which was the result of a great many complex factors, turned out to be unsuccessful. This paper examines the experience of the
Japanese in the Dominican Republic, and their subsequent repatriation. Background of the Conflict The presence of Asians in the Caribbean nation of the Dominican Republic is not accidental,
but a result, at least in the case of the Japanese, whom well consider first, of deliberate policy. In 1956, the dictator of the Dominican Republic, Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo
Molina, "extended an offer of refuge for Japanese immigrants seeking to improve their fortunes in the late 1950s by taking up residence in Trujillos vaunted Paradise of the Caribbean" (Horst
and Asagiri, 2000, p. 335). Over 1,300 Japanese relocated to the Dominican Republic in hopes of making their future there; but they were disappointed and most left again (Horst and
Asagiri, 2000). Trujillo was an absolute dictator, and while the Dominican Republic made "significant economic gains" during his regime, those gains came at the cost of personal liberty; Trujillo could
be wise and benevolent at times, but at other times it became clear that he was "a tyrant bent upon retaining the Dominican Republic as his personal fiefdom" (Horst and
Asagiri, 2000, p. 335). One of the things Trujillo did to try and improve conditions in the country was to promote a sort of "selective immigration" first involving Europeans and
then the Japanese (Horst and Asagiri, 2000). European immigrants, however, did not consider the DR their final destination, but considered it a sort of temporary stop on the way to
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