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What's on Robinson Otis Paco

LEVEL 1 Storename Bacolod Chicken Inasal Binalot BPI Express Banking Chinoy King Dakasi Milk Tea Fortune Fountain Fully Loaded Imono LBC Express M.Y SHOES MADINA Money Changer McDonald's Mercury Drugstore Mr. Quickie MSP Dones Marketing National Bookstore Pho Hoa Restaurant Red Ribbon Robinsons Appliances Robinsons Appliances - L1 New Area Robinsons Supermarket Smart PLDT Payphone Starbucks The Old Spaghetti House Tokyo Tokyo Western Union LEVEL 2 Storename Aficionado Audiophile Avida Land Corp. Avida Land Corp. - Temporary Sales Office Balut Eggspress Big Apple Express Spa CD-R KING Cebuana Lhuillier David's Salon Ecodesign Solutions Inc. Ex...
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Bit of History About Paco Manila

Dilao, was a settlement of 3000 Japanese during the Spanish era around the year 1600. The term probably originated from the Tagalog term 'dilaw', meaning 'yellow', which describes their general physiognomy[citation needed]. The Japanese had established quite early an enclave at Dilao, a suburb of Manila, where they numbered between 300 to 400 in 1593. A statue of Takayama can be found there. In 1603, during the Sangley rebellion, they numbered 1,500, and 3,000 in 1606. The Franciscan friar Luis Sotelo was involved in the support of the Dilao enclave between 1600 and 1608. The Japanese led an abortive rebellion in Dilao against the Spanish in 1606-1607, but their numbers rose again until the interdiction of Christianity by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1614, when 300 Japanese Christian refugees under Takayama Ukon settled in the Philippines. They are at the origin of today's 200,000-strong Japanese population in the Philippines. A Sikh Temple and Unilever Philippines is located...
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