The Japanese cemetery is beautifully neat. Nine hundred and nineteen Japanese are buried here, killed by pearl diving mishaps or cyclones in earlier times. Cockies squawk in the gum trees. Most of the headstones are inscribed pieces of the unique local stone. It may not be their homeland. But it is a truly special resting place.
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That seems such a lot of deaths. I didn’t realise so many Japanese had found their way to Australia in the past.
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Ah yes, Broome is the centre of our pearling industry and in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries the Japanese were the experts in hard hat diving. The invention of pearl seeding was a blessing.
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Looks a peaceful resting place. Unlike the war that laid them there.
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