Word: bushido
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...first half of his six-year term, said President Quezon, he had spent laying the Commonwealth's political and economic foundations. The second half, he would devote to "a spiritual revival of the Filipino people" by formulating "a sort of written Bushido."* Then he proceeded to do something that no successful politician can do in a real democracy, to tell his fellow countrymen that their national character is weak and full of flaws...
...Bushido: the unwritten chivalric code of Japan's oldtime samurai (warriors...
Scratch a young, ambitious Japanese officer and find a fiercely devoted acolyte of austere, intense War Minister Sadao Araki. Older heads, especially in the House of Peers, may shake, do shake. But Lieut.-General Araki sums up in his short, shrill self both Hodo and Bushido, the benevolent and conquering watchwords of Imperial Japan...
...Bushido is "The Way of the Warrior" and just now that is Japan's way-due in no small measure to Lieut.-General Araki. Comparatively obscure 14 months ago, he was not listed in the Japan Year Book's Ano Hito Wa Tare Desuka ("Who's Who")* when Japan's doddering "Old Fox," Premier Ki Inukai, 77, made him War Minister (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931). Since then, in Lieut.-General Araki's opinion, events have followed the Divine pattern. Last week the Japanese Army, symbolizing the Imperial Sword, was striking the last blows needed...
...Coleman, 64, his wife and his son, Horace Jr., 22, clasped hands on the rear seat of their automobile in a tightly closed garage until asphyxiated by carbon monoxide from the exhaust. For 32 years the Colemans had been Quaker missionaries in Japan. They had steeped themselves in Japanese Bushido, the ethical code of the samurai which prescribes harakiri for those facing shame. Learning that Clara B. McGill, a destitute young girl whom the Colemans had sheltered, had made a complaint that Horace Coleman Jr. had betrayed her, they left a note: "This way accords with our peculiar ideas...