1. Goryo HamaguchiGoryo Hamaguchi was the seventh business owner of current Yamasa Corporation in Japan He saved many lives of his fellow villagers of Hiro, Kii Province, when a massive tsunami struck the Kii Peninsula in 1854. He set fire to stacks of "Inamura" (rice sheaves) to use as landmarks and help him guide those villagers to safe place. Lafcadio Hearn wrote a story about him in "Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East (1897).
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