I have been looking up information about the Japanese immigrants fromt he 50s and I found this link pretty interesting
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=2456_0_3_0
Dominican Republic. Thirty Japanese who emigrated to the Dominican Republic in the 1950s have joined 150 others in a class-action lawsuit against the Japanese government for inducing them to move to the Caribbean nation, where they were forced into hard labor.
In the 1950s, Japan encouraged emigration, including to the Dominican Republic. Some 1,300 Japanese emigrated in 1955; they were promised free land. However, they did not get arable land in Dominican Republic, and 180 Japanese sued their government for making false promises to induce them to emigrate. In 1961, Japan offered to repatriate those who had emigrated to the Dominican Republic. Most returned, but about 900 Japanese immigrants and their descendants remain in the Dominican Republic.
John
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/mn/more.php?id=2456_0_3_0
Dominican Republic. Thirty Japanese who emigrated to the Dominican Republic in the 1950s have joined 150 others in a class-action lawsuit against the Japanese government for inducing them to move to the Caribbean nation, where they were forced into hard labor.
In the 1950s, Japan encouraged emigration, including to the Dominican Republic. Some 1,300 Japanese emigrated in 1955; they were promised free land. However, they did not get arable land in Dominican Republic, and 180 Japanese sued their government for making false promises to induce them to emigrate. In 1961, Japan offered to repatriate those who had emigrated to the Dominican Republic. Most returned, but about 900 Japanese immigrants and their descendants remain in the Dominican Republic.
John