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Tanimoto In Japan
Despite the nuclear catastrophes of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan is one of the world’s foremost leaders economically, because of their continued peace with other countries which provided great trade benefits. In Hiroshima the characters learned from their past by helping others in similar predicaments as they were, which enabled the community to grow. Mr. Tanimoto had been stripped of his land, personal items, and and home but he still continued to help in the nuclear war. In order to grow our communities a society must learn from their past and continue to grow with the knowledge learned by helping others in perils similar to our past troubles, like Mr. Tanimoto did. An example of how we can learn is Mr. Tanimoto in Hiroshima when he

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