The sacrifice Hamaguchi made to save the poor was enormous but on the other hand he saved a whole village. I don't think rich people nowadays can make such sacrifice to save others.
People now have lost the value of living in a community so we don't help each other as much. But after readind this you realize how important a tight nit community can avoid such disaster.
Another valuable point of this text is how knowledgable the elderly are. They may not be able to physically work but their knowledge is a true treasure. I think their knowledge should be passed on to generation and generation. We rely on modern technology too much and we're forgetting old saying from the past. If someone knew what Hamaguchi knew about predicting the tsunami maybe more lives world have been saved on March 11th.
