Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures Of A Japanese Boy,New Youme Landowne A Goldfish Who Cant Stop

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And His Mother Punished Him For Forgetting To Take Out The Trash

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Shipwrecked!: The True Adventures Of A Japanese Boy,New Youme Landowne A Goldfish Who Cant StopAny 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 Fourteenyearold 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