Does anyone know the Shimada family who lived in Yamaga, Kumamoto Prefecture, over a century ago? That is the question being asked by Lynn Araki-Regan, 55, a fourth-generation Japanese American and the great-granddaughter of an immigrant from Yamaga, who left for Hawaii about 130 years ago.

Does anyone know the Shimada family who lived in Yamaga, Kumamoto Prefecture, over a century ago? That is the question being asked by Lynn Araki-Regan, 55, a fourth-generation Japanese American and the great-granddaughter of an immigrant from Yamaga, who left for Hawaii about 130 years ago.

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