Ninomiya Sontoku
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, , also known as Ninomiya Kinjirō , was a Japanese agriculturalist. He lost his parents when he was a boy, but through hard work and diligence, he rebuilt his fallen family at the age of 20. Later, he rebuilt approximately 600 villages and became a shogunate retainer. His ideas and actions were inherited as the Hōtokusha Movement.