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====Croatian Bolivians==== | ====Croatian Bolivians==== | ||
====Japanese Bolivians==== | ====Japanese Bolivians==== | ||
*Since Bolivia has no coast, the ''''first Japanese settlers came from neighboring Peru''' where their contracts ended prior to the 1950s. | |||
*Most Japanese settlers had origins from '''Okinawa''', while the rest from '''Gifu, Hiroshima, Kanagawa and Osaka prefectures'''. | |||
*Some of the settlers left Peru for Bolivia after '''epidemics of disease hit the settlers in Peru.''' | |||
*In 1899, '''Mapiri River Region in La Paz''' experienced the first entrance of 91 Japanese workers assigned for rubber plantations. Since then, Andes Mountains continued to attract few more hundreds of Japanese laborers, who luckily caught work in mining and railroad construction. | |||
*The inland Amazon River region appeared as the second main destination for the workers, who also came through Peru to work on '''rubber plantations in northwestern Bolivia'''. | |||
*The end of World War I and Great Depression shifted Japanese workers in the rubber and mining industries respectively. The only places in Bolivia that survived changes were the town of Riberalta and La Paz, which served as the Japanese commercial activities. | |||
*In the 1930s, most Japanese remained as settlers and many brought wives from their home country while most married local women; these made difference that divided the community. | |||
*After World War II, the government warmly permitted Japanese refugees. Treaties after 1954 guided in a new chapter of Japanese Bolivian history and the '''massive influx of agricultural settlers from U.S.-controlled Okinawa and mainland Japan'''. The need of relocating surplus populations from war-torn Japan met the Bolivian government's wish to develop the eastern lower lands in '''Santa Cruz Department'''. With the financial help of the Japanese government, '''Colonia Okinawa and Colonia San Juan de Yapacaní''' were established.<ref>"Japanese in Bolivia", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Bolivians, accessed 16 May 2021.</ref> | |||
====Jews in Bolivia==== | ====Jews in Bolivia==== | ||
====German Bolivians==== | ====German Bolivians==== | ||