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Nikkei Chronicles #10—Nikkei Generations: Connecting Families & Communities
An Unfortunate Break
They arrived in Peru on the same ship, the SS Hong Kong Maru. Four passengers among a small group of immigrants from Saga-Kiushu Prefecture, who, because their hometowns were close to each other, began a close friendship, one that could even be described as a “close brotherhood.”
For five years they worked together at the Santa Barbara and Casa Blanca de Cañete plantations that belonged to British Sugar, 140 kilometers south of Lima.
Once their work contracts had ended, two of them, who I’ll call Tamotsu san and Tsunesuke san, moved to the city of Pisco, …
