Satoko Kitahara was a
wealthy young woman who lived in Tokyo in the years after World War II. She was
well-educated, spoke several languages, played the piano and was trained as a
pharmacologist. But she lived in a city in ruins. Some of the poorest people
Tokyo, mostly widows and orphans, lived near the river in a place that came to
be called “Ants' Town,” because the people who collected rubbish for a living
were hard working and community minded. Satoko left her wealthy life behind to
live with these people and help them gain respect and self worth.
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