Planners will be consulting locals on the establishment of a P120-million budget from the Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone Authority (TEAZA), an attached agency of the Department of Tourism, for the development of barangay Mintal, identified as a heritage site and a Japanese progressive community before World War II.
Mintal is located around one hour from the Davao International Airport, and has been cited as a historically important, aside from a largely agricultural, residential, and educational site.
Pre-war Mintal was considered as Davao City’s Little Tokyo, where the Japanese had settled and built infrastructures like hospital, schools and cemetery.
Relics from the Japanese residents have been found in the village as early as the 1900s.
Representatives of the consultancy company Berkman International Inc. have been visiting Barangay Mintal to research and identify Japanese heritage, historical, cultural and man-made attractions and possible destinations.
“There is a need to have first-hand knowledge of the typical Mintal tourism experience,” City Tourism Chief Regina Rosa Tecson said.
To gather more information about Mintal, the team of planners on Tuesday initiated a public consultative meeting and workshop.
The activity aimed to collect stories about the village from families who lived in the area before, during, and after the Japanese occupation.
The objective was to trace history and identify landmarks.
Barangay Captain Ramon Bargamento II has proposed the revival and rehabilitation of his barangay’s rich historical resources after being declared as Japanese Heritage Area in 2009.
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