Famous for Pearl Harbor and the dropping of the Atom Bomb, Hiroshima and Hawaii actually have deeper connections that go back to the late nineteenth century when the boom in the Hawaiian sugar industry attracted large numbers of male Japanese migrant workers who were seeking to escape difficult economic conditions in Japan as that country underwent modernization. This article explores those connections.

What is the connection between Hiroshima and Hawaii?

Easy!

Japan launched a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 triggering the Pacific War, and America dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima four years later to bring it to a close.

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