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The legend of Okichi Saito was forced to be the concubine of the, first US consul in Japan. Reunited with her lover she was considered as an outcast. To free her fiancé from the stain, she leaves him. He then then soon dies. Okichi survives him for twenty years until she commits suicide by drowning herself in the sea. In Shimoda there is a museum dedicated to her memory. |
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