π The Kasato Maru reaches Brazil (1908)
Where: Port of Santos, Brazil
Nearby on the globe: SΓ£o Paulo Cathedral β π Open the 3D globe
π On This Day: June 18
June 18, 1908: The Kasato Maru reaches Brazil. On this day in 1908, the Japanese ship Kasato Maru arrived at the port of Santos, Brazil, with 781 immigrants. They had traveled a long way to work on coffee farms. Today Brazil has the largest population of Japanese descent outside Japan.
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- 1983 π Sally Ride launched aboard Space Shuttle Challenger and became the first American woman in space, using the shuttle's robot arm to release satellites. Kennedy Space Center β
π§ Question of the day
Where did the Kasato Maru immigrants work?
- Coffee farms
- Gold mines
- Whaling ships
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Answer: Coffee farms
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What happened on June 18?
June 18, 1908: The Kasato Maru reaches Brazil. It happened in Port of Santos, Brazil.
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