Word: bushido
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Seven months ago, Japanese radio was shackled and archaic. It was pushed around by militarists, staffed with incompetent kin and courtiers of the royal family, and as traditional as Bushido in its programs. But once unbound by the Allies, it soon paced the campaign for a democratic Japan. Last week, to help it stay on its own feet, the Broadcasting Corp. of Japan had a new, liberal president: an unobtrusive mathematician, Kinnosuke Ogura...
Leading this select list were the three brothers of Emperor Hirohito. Prince Yasuhito Chichibu, 43, educated at Oxford, a lover of English tweeds and Swiss ski slopes, once likened the code of Bushido to the chivalry of King Arthur's Round Table; he served with Tokyo's military garrison. Prince Nobuhito Takamatsu, 40, more retiring than his older brother, was last week reported giving counsel to the Emperor on government reform. Prince Takahito Mikasa, 30, who likes the strenuous life, once made an eye-filling picture while training as an Army cavalryman at Yatsu Beach near Tokyo...
Some fissures were at last appearing in the armor of Bushido-the stern warrior code. By Western standards, the rate of surrender was still low indeed, but Japanese prisoners, once a rarity in the Pacific, were coming in as never before. Psychological warfare units worked hard to encourage more...
...souvenir-hunting doughboys came back with 28 live Japs. Another Jap, surrendering to a sergeant, explained in fluent English, "I know Germany has fallen and our situation on Luzon is hopeless." Still another turned to his captors and asked plaintively: "What is it you have that breaks our Bushido spirit...
...bridges built, the airstrips rolled, the lumber cut, the dirt hauled by the engineers. He would also find it in the muddy, lined, unshaven faces of the infantrymen, seasoned fighters who beat mountains, jungles and rain as well as Japanese. What the Americans had better than Bushido was fighting heart and unmatched ability to fight an engineers...