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Japan: An extended family of Jewish refugees fleeing from Nazi persecution in Europe aboard the Japanese ocean liner Hikawa Maru (1940).<br/><br/> In 1940–41, before Japan's entry into the Second World War, hundreds of Jewish refugees fled from Nazi persecution to Canada and the USA via Japan, and many of them sailed on Hikawa Maru. In August 1940 a party of 82 German and Lithuanian Jews who had travelled via the USSR and Vladivostok reached Seattle on Hikawa Maru.
Cherry blossom and castle epitomise the aesthetic appeal of Japan in the 1916 NYK Line steamship poster.