Word: bushido
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...code of Bushido Standish describes as a synthetic article, manufactured by the Furenos and friends to reconcile the old samurai code of honor with the dishonorable course they think Japan must pursue. Anything goes in Bushido. After the old generations of simple-minded warriors are dead, no one but the long-suffering Japanese women remain to oppose the treachery by which the brandy-bibbing, geisha-gluttonous Fureno circle plots to overwhelm Asia and fight it out with America...
...have the honor to address you in accordance with Bushido- the code of the Japanese warrior. It will be regarded [remembered] that some time ago a note advising honorable surrender was sent to the Commander in Chief of your fighting forces. To this no reply has been received...
West Pointer Wainwright knows all about Bushido, all about the treatment the Jap has already given to U.S. prisoners, particularly Filipinos. He gave the note the answer it deserved: he ignored it. Along the front the firing grew...
...American prisoners from Wake Island arrived in Yokohama yesterday. They had a very sad expression on their faces, but they are admiring the Bushido treatment* they received on the boat from the Japanese. They are grateful for the accommodations given to them in the way of hospitalization. At the beginning they could not eat Japanese pickles, but after trying a few they have taken a liking to them. . . . During their voyage they displayed their typical American individualism, but the Japanese trained them to be more cooperative. ... On the boat, the Japanese exerted every effort to thrash out American individualism...
...other hand, showed plainly how puzzled it felt. Japanese papers dug up the dirtiest word they could think of, called Hess an Anglophile because he was born in Alexandria, lived there until he was twelve years old. (Until 1939 his father and mother remained in Egypt.) The land of Bushido (loyalty) could not understand how a man could run out on his boss. If it was all a great big clever Axis plot, the Japanese were...