Asajiro Noda
was a New Zealand seaman, cashier, gum-digger and farmer. He was born in Japan, and left when he was about 10, spending several years as a sailor before arriving in Bluff sometime in the 1890s.  He is noted as the first Japanese settler in New Zealand.

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1868 births
1942 deaths
New Zealand sailors
19th-century New Zealand farmers
New Zealand people of Japanese descent
New Zealand gum-diggers
Japanese emigrants
Immigrants to the British Empire