Winnie Kumura and her husband, Norman, of Honolulu stopped for lunch at the Honu Honu Aloha Kitchen in Sasebo, Japan, in March. They had just taken a cruise weaving through the Kujuku Islands, 99 pine-studded islets west of Kitamatsuura Peninsula in Nagasaki prefecture.

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