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2 unusual facts about Shikata ga nai


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The phrase is also introduced or explained by Japanese or Japanese-American characters in books such as the Mars trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, James Clavell's Shōgun and David Guterson's Snow Falling on Cedars.

Similarly, John Hersey's Hiroshima applies the phrase after efforts to assist fatally injured hibakusha ceased.



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