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Footnotes

* Reported in the Washington Post, October 15, 1945.

* Quoted from a contemporary chronicle of the Nara period by Sir George Sansom, Japan: A Short Cultural History, p. 131.

* Quoted by Herbert Norman, Japan's Emergence as a Modern State, p. 17, n. 12.

* Borton, Hugh, Peasant Uprisings in Japan of the Tokugawa Period, Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 2nd Series, 16 (1938).

* Wilson, James, A missionary voyage to the Southern Pacific Ocean performed in the years 1796, 1797 and 1798 in the ship Duff. London, 1799, p. 384. Quoted by Edward Winslow Gifford, Tongan Society. Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bulletin 61. Hawaii, 1929.

* Norman, p. 96.

* Quoted from a Japanese authority who bases his remarks on statements by Baron Kaneko who was one of the drafters. See Norman, ibid., p. 88.

* Embree, John F., The Japanese Nation, p. 88.

* Norman, op. cit., p. 131. This discussion is based on the illuminating analysis given by Norman.

Ibid., p. 125.

* Professor Uyeda, quoted by Miriam S. Farley, Pigmy Factories. Far Eastern Survey, VI (1937), p. 2.

* Documents of Iriki, 1929, p. 380, n. 19.

* When the Japanese use the phrase ‘knowing jin,' they are somewhat closer to Chinese usage. Buddhists exhort people to ‘know jin' and this means to be merciful and benevolent. But, as the all-Japanese dictionary says, ‘knowing jin refers to ideal man rather than to acts.'

* Nohara, K., The True Face of Japan. London, 1936, p. 45.

* Lory, Hillis, Japan's Military Masters, 1943, p. 40.

* Quoted by Kanichi Asakawa, Documents of Iriki, 1929.

*For a summary see The Japanese: Character and Morale (mimeographed). Prepared by Ladislas Farago for the Committee for National Morale, 9 East 89th Street, New York City.

* Markino, Yoshio, When I was a Child, 1912, pp. 159–160. Italics in the Original.

* Nitobe, Inazo, Bushido, The Soul of Japan, 1900, p. 83.

* Okakura, Yoshisaburo, The Life and Thought of Japan. London, 1913, p. 17.

* Norman, E. H., op. tit., pp. 44–45, and n. 85.

* Op. cit., p. 45.

* Lowell, Percival, Occult Japan, 1895, pp. 106–121.

* Watson, W. Petrie, The Future of Japan, 1907.

How the Jap Army Fights, articles from the Infantry Journal published as Penguin Books, 1942, pp 54–55.

* Eckstein, G., In Peace Japan Breeds War, 1943, p. 153.

Nohara, K., The True Face of Japan. London, 1936, p. 140.

* Sansom, op. cit., 1931, p. 51.

* Count Shinenobu Okuma, Fifty Years of New Japan. English version edited by Marcus B. Huish, London, 1909,11:37.

* Mishima, Sumie Seo, My Narrow Isle, 1941, p. 107.

* Eliot, Sir Charles, Japanese Buddhism, p. 286.

* Nukariya, Kaiten, The Religion of the Samurai. London, 1913, p. 197.

Ibid., p. 194.

* Eliot, Sir Charles, Japanese Buddhism, p. 186.

* Quoted by E. Steinilber-Oberlin, The Buddhist Sects of Japan. London, 1938, p. 143.

Ibid., p. 175.

* Suzuki, Professor Daisetz Teitaro, Essays In Zen Buddhism, vol. 3, p. 318 (Kyoto, 1927, 1933, 1934).

Quoted by Sir Charles Eliot, Japanese Buddhism, p. 401.

* Kagawa, Toyohiko, Before the Dawn, p. 240.

* Bacon, Alice Mabel, Japanese Women and Girls, p. 6.

* Op. cit., p. 10.

* Geoffrey Gorer has also emphasized the role of Japanese toilet training in Themes in Japanese Culture, Transactions of the New York Academy of Science, vol. 5, pp. 106–124, 1943.

* Sugimoto, Etsu Inagaki, A Daughter of the Samurai. Doubleday Page and Company, 1926, pp. 15, 24.

* Embree, John F., Suye Mura, p. 190.

* Gorer, Geoffrey, Japanese Character Structure, mimeographed, Tho Institute for International Studies, 1943, p. 27.

* Sugimoto, Etsu Inagaki, A Daughter of the Samurai. Doubleday Page and Company, 1926, p. 20.

* A Daughter of the Samurai, p. 92.

* Embree, J. F., Suye Mura, p. 175.

* Nohara, Komakichi, The True Face of Japan. London, 1936, p. 50.

* Cases based on Rorschach tests given to Japanese in War Relocation Camp by Doctor Dorothea Leighton, and analyzed by Frances Holter.

* A Daughter of the Samurai, pp. 135–136.

* Quoted by Upton Close, Behind the Face of Japan, 1942, p. 136.

* Japan: An Interpretation, 1904, p. 453.

* Quoted from a Japanese account, by Upton Close, Behind the Face of Japan, 1942, p. 294. This version of the Ruasian surrender does not have to be literally true to have cultural importance.

* Time, February 18, 1946.

* Literal translations are in quotation marks.