Japanese woman travels to Kemmerer to connect to past

Posted 9/13/23

KEMMERER — Mikiko Munesada and her husband, Masanori Takano, made an incredible journey from Hiroshima, Japan, to Kemmerer, to find the gravesite of Munesada’s great-grandfather, Sakuichi Munesada, who was a coal miner at Sublet No. 6 until he passed away, due to an accident, in 1917. The couple was in town on Saturday, Sept. 2.

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