The Japanese cemetery at Broome
In the summer of 1888–89, Broome became the centre of the pearling industry in the colony of Western Australia. The most successful divers were Asians: Malays, Timorese and, especially, Japanese.
But pearling was dangerous. It’s likely that more than one in ten of the Japanese divers died each year, and many of them were in their 20s.
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National Library of Australia, nla.obj-142533863
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