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(DSC01678) Davao History (2): Kichisaburo Ohta, a Japanese entrepreneur, was granted a permit to take advantage with the vast land of Davao to become an abaca and coconut plantations. It was 1903 that the first Japanese workers came. While creating a little Japan here, they manage to have their own school, newspapers, an embassy, and even a Shinto Shrine. They established extensive abaca plantations around the shores of Davao Gulf and developed large-scale commercial interests such as copra, timber, fishing and import-export trading. Filipinos learned the techniques of improved cultivation from the Japanese and agriculture became the lifeblood of the province’s economic prosperity. Because of the increasing influence of the Japanese in the trade and economy of region, on March 16, 1936, Romualdo Quimpo, the congressman from Davao filed Bill no. 609 and was subsequently passed as Commonwealth Act no. 51 creating the City of Davao from the Town of Davao (Mayo) and the Guianga District. The bill further called for appointments of the local officials from the President. (Taken from http://allaboutdavao.com/2010/02/short-h istory-of-davao/)

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