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Saito gives the ultimatum: work or die. To his astonishment, Nicholson calmly chooses to die, and his officers with him. Saito is forced to spare them, a fearful loss of face. And so begins a contest of chivalries-Bushido v. What England Expects-that hilariously exposes the ridiculous in what men fight for, and subtly reveals the sublime...
...legendary founder is Bodhi-Dharma, "the blue-eyed monk," who came to China from India in the 6th century A.D. Imported to Japan in the 12th century, Zen flourished so mightily that it eventually modified most phases of Japanese life, notably in the elaborate code of conduct called Bushido and in the arts of poetry, spinning, flower-arranging, swordplay, archery, and the famed, highly stylized tea ceremony...
...navy mistakes. Says Pratt: "One is struck by the fact that the Japanese leaders, naval and military', were always waiting for somebody else to do something. ... In actual contacts, of course, much of the Japanese failure can be traced to the mystical belief that a man with Bushido and a knife is better than a man with a Tommy gun and a bellyful of beans. This piece of irrationalism is fundamental. . . . The true failure lies rather in that tenacity of which the Japanese were so very proud-their persistence in error, their unwillingness to alter a plan once...
...Bushido, 1947. In Tsurumi, Japan, the Independent Union of the Morinaga Foodstuffs Industrial Co. decided to allow Western-style dances, provided that: 1) unmarried girls get permission from their mothers; 2) newly married men get permission from, their wives...
There was a notable vacancy this week among the ghosts of Bushido warriors who circle endlessly above Tokyo's Yasukuni shrine. The AWOL god was Naval Warrant Officer Magoshichi Sugino, who was racked up among the immortals 42 years ago when (supposedly) he lost his life in Admiral Heihachiro Togo's crippling attack on the Russian Far Eastern fleet at Port Arthur...