Communities of Difference Share a Final Resting Place: Here lies buried not a Japanese American, but a citizen of Japan. He was a seaman on board a Japanese ship that called in San Diego. Overboard he fell, in 1887, as the ship departed for Mexico. His body was found off the coast of California and his remains were interred in Mount Hope Cemetery. Added to his memorial is a slab that bears a Japanese inscription, adding yet one more language and alphabet to our list: Armenian, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, English, and, now, Japanese. Can anyone offer a translation? Mount Hope Cemetery. [2020]
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