Word: bushido
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...with few officers left, some enemy enlisted men decide to live.* There was no sign yet that any large number of enemy troops would be ready to surrender until total national defeat was upon them. And Premier Suzuki was intensifying his efforts to pump the savage military code of Bushido into civilians at home, men and women alike...
...tanks and trucks were moving up the highway from Ormoc to the front. It was still true that the battle for Leyte had been decided, but its length and its total cost were yet to be counted. Nobody believed that the Japs would fail to run true to Bushido form, fight to the last...
...withering on the vine, but they take a bloody lot of withering." Many a "Digger" will swear that the fanatical, agricultural, fecund Jap, cultivating vegetable gardens in inaccessible jungle clearings, not only is waxing fat and happy but is intermarrying with natives to raise a new race of Bushido boys...
...soldier depends too much on his material power and is deficient in spiritual strength. The industrial might of the U.S. must eventually bow to the spirit of Bushido...
...honored ranks of the warrior classes last week were admitted the little people of Japan, the ragged and hungry factory workers. It was an admission that this was total war, and all Japan was told that Bushido was not an exclusive spiritual cloak for those who fight; it was also for those who produce. Said Tokyo radio: "Step by step and moment by moment [the enemy] is approaching our mainland. . . . To support the spirit and follow the souls of the 4,500 men [on Tarawa and Makin] who preferred death to dishonor is the best way to fight...