Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures of a Japanese Boy
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ISBN: 068817485X / Publisher: HarperCollins, January 2003
In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck left him and his companions castaways on a remote island, Manjiro learned new ways when he became the first Japanese person to set foot in the United States.
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Any person who leavesthe country to go to anotherand later returnswill be put to death.This was the law in Japan in the early 1800s. When fourteen-year-old Manjiro, working on a fishing boat to help support his family, was shipwrecked three hundred miles away from his homeland, he was heartbroken to think that he would never again be able to go home. So when an American whaling boat rescued him, Manjiro decided to do what no other Japanese person had ever done: He went to America, where he received an education and took part in events that eventually made him a hero in the Land of the Rising Sun.
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