¡Jiyon Man Ha Tohen
¡Yamamoto Hajime Ryoku
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[Machine Translation] He was only 14 years old. A poor fisherman who could not even afford to attend a temple school, he drifted away from the isolation of Japan with only his own body. He became the first Japanese to live in Western civilization (America), the first to receive higher education in the West, the first to travel the world's oceans, the first to dig for gold in California during the gold rush, and the only Japanese castaway to return home on his own. Two years after his return, Perry's fleet arrived. Without this man, Japan might have become a colony. This is the miraculous life of John Mann, a.k.a. Manjiro Nakahama, a local pioneer, as depicted by a writer born in Tosa with all his might.
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