Museum displays new documents on emigration to Hawaii

Yoshiaki Fujimoto, a guide at the Museum of Japanese Emigration to Hawaii in Suo-Ohima, Yamaguchi Prefecture, explains documents added to those on display at the museum on April 10, 2015. Residents in the western Japan town were among these emigrants. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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