Tokyo Suburb at the End of Winter
A Japanese Immigrant to Dominica
In 1958 hundreds of Japanese immigrated into the Dominican Republic, since Japan was then still poor suffering the aftermath of WWII.
At a border area near Haiti 300 Japanese started to cultivate land. They were promised in Japan vast farm land but actually got a tiny area full of stones in Dominica. So, Japanese immigrants left the place one family after another. Today only one family remains.
The Japanese was determined to stay there and grow coffee plants. After half-a-century hard efforts, the man, now over 90 years old, has succeeded and owes 120 ha of coffee fields.
Though it is a family farming of coffee plantation, his coffee beans can be purchased following the procedure specified in a Web site run by a company established by Japanese immigrants to the Dominican Republic.
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Mar 3:27 No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.