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Migration Bibliography: Bolivia

Excerpt from Iyo Kunimoto, comp., "Japanese Bolivian Annotated Bibliography," in Akemi Kikumura-Yano, ed., Encyclopedia of Japanese Descendants in the Americas: An Illustrated History of the Nikkei (Walnut Creek, Calif.: AltaMira Press, 2002), 107-110.

Amemiya, Kozy, “The ‘Labor Pains’ in Forging a Nikkei Community: A Study of the Santa Cruz Region in Bolivia.” In New Worlds, New Lives: Globalization and People of Japanese Descent in the Americas and from Latin America in Japan, edited by Lane Ryo Hirabayashi, Akemi Kikumura-Yano, and James Hirabayashi. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002, 90-107.


Hiraoka, Mario. “Pioneer Settlement in Eastern Bolivia.” Ph.D. diss., The University of Wisconsin, 1974.

A study of Okinawa and Colonia San Juan de Yacataní by a geographer. Discussed in the context of the geographical environment and developmental history of the eastern lowlands of Bolivia.


Hiraoka, Mario. “Structural Variation among Dwelling in the Japanese Colony of San Juan de Yapacaní, Bolivia.” Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Yearbook 34 (1980).


Thompson, Stephen Ide. “Religious Conversion and Religious Zeal in an Overseas Enclave: The Case of the Japanese in Bolivia.” Anthropological Quarterly 41, no. 4 (1968).


Thompson, Stephen Ide. “San Juan Yapacaní: A Japanese Pioneer Colony in Eastern Bolivia.” Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois, 1968.

The Ph.D. dissertation by an anthropologist focuses on Colonia San Juan de Yapacaní.


Tigner, James Lawrence. “Ryukyuans in Bolivia.” Hispanic American Historical Review 43, no. 3 (1983).

A history of Okinawan immigrants to Bolivia.


Bibliography in other languages: 日本語 - Español


Historical Overview: Bolivia

Additional Resources: Bolivia

Encyclopedia of Nikkei Migration

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