Japanese pearl divers in Torres Strait remembered at Obon - ?????? - a podcast by SBS

Seventy-five years ago, hundreds of interned Japanese pearl divers were deported from Australia at the end of World War Two. It largely ended a once-lucrative industry in Queensland’s Torres Strait. Now their descendants are preparing for Obon, the Japanese festival of the dead, to mark the economic and social contribution of what was once Australia’s largest Japanese community.

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