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...honor-laden Lieut. General Masaharu Homma, first commander in the Philippines, there was only one honorable course. Douglas MacArthur reported that General Homma met the honorable death by hara-kiri in General MacArthur's own expansive apartment in the Manila Hotel...
...than most nonprofessionals. I know every ship. Nothing in my life has ever hurt me as much as what happened at Pearl Harbor. What a horrible thing those in charge did. They owe for the lives of every man killed there. Maybe the Japanese have something in this hara-kiri business...
Thus far Japanese Christianity has shown little inclination towards martyrdom in either the early Christian or hara-kiri tradition. Significantly silent has been Japan's most famed Christian, myopic Toyohiko Kagawa, a Presbyterian convert and founder of the Kingdom of God movement, who privately deprecates Japanese supernationalism but avoids public condemnation of it. When Christian Kagawa visited India last year, Mohandas Gandhi took him to task for this. Kagawa hinted that to speak might lose him his life...
...Then," said the General, "I shall commit hara-kiri in your front court...
...bombed and sunk by the Japanese, kept repeating all evening: "Panay! Panay! So sorry! So sorry!" Typical Japanese Army reasoning: Capitalism is responsible for communism, hence to defeat communism capitalism must be overthrown. Author Gunther also picked up a warning that the Japanese are capable of committing hara-kiri on a national as well as individual scale: the more inextricably Japan becomes involved in China the more likely it is that Japan will deliberately attack a stronger enemy and go down blazingly to defeat in a first-class...