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In 1865 a Scottish sugar planter in Hawaii wrote to an American businessman in Yokohama: “Could any good agricultural laborers be obtained from Japan … to serve like the Chinese under a contract for six or eight years?” The American said he’d see.
The gravestone of Myles Fukunaga stands in Mo’ili’ili Japanese Cemetery in Honolulu. | JOEL ABROAD / VIA FLICKR
The ragtag band he assembled “mere laborers,” he said, “picked out of the streets of Yokohama, sick, exhausted and filthy” became modern Japan’s first emigrants. They arrived in Honolulu on June 19, 1868. They were known as
gannenmono “first-year people.” It was year one of the watershed Meiji Era (1868-1912); year one of modern Japan; 15 years after the famous “opening” of Japan by an American squadron of menacing steam-powered Black Ships.