Show U VMwtf m cohollc roper0 Japanese Keep Secrets with the Ptacle I uvvr r been II of the greatest naval and Iuds otto ep1nde made tln trateslsts of the world arc to waft h arf aural Interested solving the em T laleasely The phenomenal successes ak of t the Inet IIIl oln Far Eastern conflict th In the rhaP 10 t Iran victory In the seace overwhelming Tsushima annihilating one I TSl the of I Port I t fleets of modern times else If finest explanation It Is easy to earner Ail re sn r At pa > 18t nojestvensky simply placed I that t hands of Togo nnd the s 8Prnl if in the fa sprint ref been other than kPrlnt have Icould not 11 I k It could Pt hi P This however does not ca sas when I d h the brilliant Russian ad r in why try da I shoieout tailed Into the trap with appar shore M As a matter of fact 01 ha otien eyes fl harlot j know there was a trap for bouts did not t outSth d aed < > r was lcd to believe I m I iJIIaglned my feet fleet was miles nI I the Japanese leai from Its actual position This tas J but adds to the mystery spend now Is not us to the I I be question I et t fighting ability of the Japan at a laior ked hut how the Imperial government for to accomplish t Inor t able successfully Unprecedented fact of keeping Its ean I t i onehs I lOe and The at Ion the t r on a nj Price it I nt the d who risky on and not arlft refresh nbltlon I v a fresW e the a oar rJ an y I Parli i covered a The blan r i la MI iter of r startled Gateway Temple I iscoi people and the rest of the world I I W If welling g core than two months In absolute uallstlc c nce of the plans and where anting tJ of the combined naval forces erce lie empire As one somewhat faa fa-a i obsei lIr with the enigmatical features of pen by ijese character I believe that in ewasr i > tISI acting for this marvelous strate thi e achievement a large place must a has Oren to the persistent esotericlsm ad lln till forms so marked a characters d a DlY lithe whole nation rhC bh Japan esotericlsm Is a fine art canto In the West the word reminds us caution of Buddhistic cults or the occult has 11 des of the late Madam Blatvat 1 Globe 1ut In Japan the word stands for self A not inconsiderable ex ice among the natives of Dal Wn leads me to the conviction that always have secrets to keep I and none knows better how to keep an The humblest citizen of Toklo absolutely silent on any question deems none of the foreigners busl si and there Is everywhere among iepcople a persistent and Inscrutable tlcence on all matters of which It Is taught the foreigner may disapprove obtains more so on questions un tothe ban of the censor No offense In the category of crime A i deemed worthy of moro condign r punishment than the giving away of Krets or even Intermeddling with them Oue of the greatest Ministers of State Viscount Mori who had I graced the office of Plenipotentiary at the Court of St James nnd also as MinIster at Washington was stabbed 10 death by a government clerk for hag < to push aside with his cane ain a-in that guarded the secret chambEr cham-bEr where only a priest might gaze en the repose of the imperial ancestors ances-tors In Japan the secrets of the lead are as Inviolable as those of the gem Mug ue Due to Two Influences This esoteric tendency of the Japa I tol sese mind which has played so con IPlcuous and important a part in their ma tat social and political history and In Ie tb their recent victories over Russia Is 115Dg111 due 1 to two Influences that for centu lk h ties i have been running as a united eber stream through the minds of tho peo ry if pIe bearing them on Its way Med I It Is undoubtedly first of all a char eaUS acterlstlc Inherited from China where Illatk 1 bon the remote past by the Instltu ore t tions of gum is al other secret bands the IB l the Inner life of the people becomes by a rCU 1 c t 0 oa a Ja sera plthat 1 1ng r a F It rs i Boa eat gotu III bef I t mare m-are sro laD tL > iel s to 8 t Jinrikisha largely I hargely a mystery to tho foreigner and bet to hem nothing but n whlto So no There It stands as n wall that int 1 able intruding to curiosity ions yet been tt t Pierce and r > ntornatlonal honesty genuine 1rtherhood some < may day break It down but BO far dlplo ° L acrL has signally filled to enter the acret sacred J Wn precincts As In China so in Pan de he oracular words hidden It tradition hljutsu secret f V art and okugl Inner lI1sterles have a high place In all achlovenllmt It ys nat onl a quesllon of 11IIIsII blllt or of delicacy and good taste but thc national way of doing thing and In times oC war at least has proved a most efficient factor not only In concealing plans from the enemy but from the whole world Influenced by Shintoism historic A second Intlnence under which this Inheritance from Cllln has been developed and employed 1 l Is eso teric Shintoism The adherent of this faIth believes that the if TVlmt human spirit never dies but under the influence of the gods Is In constant circulation V on behalf of men Every Japanese is Open to the Intluence aaU I ° f these ances tral spirits i because being a son of Heaven he is no less holy than his neighbors Esoteric Shlntolsm teaches that the ancestral spirits can bo made to circulate for particular IJ ends and In this way the Emperor can make the Infinite myriads of the Immeasurable past permeate the finlt human forces of today It Is difficult for us to realize or even appreciate the apparently super human courage with which n man is Inspired who believes that the Infinite life of tho past Is pouring itself out through him for the defense of his ancestral an-cestral shores Depend upon it this accounts In no small measure for the unexampedi bravery and patriotism of the Japanese soldier Let any who doubt this read the Imperial message to Admiral Togo where in his Majesty takes occasion to say We are glad that by the loyalty of our officers and men we have been able to respond to the spirits of our ancestors to which the Admiral duly replies That we have gained a success beyond our expectation ex-pectation is due to tho brilliant virtue of your Majesty and to the protection of the spirits of your imperial ancestors ances-tors and not to the action of any human hu-man being Family Is the Unit In another and no less effective way also does this faith tend to perfecting the Japanese soldier In that country the family not the Individual is the unit of the nation He Is taught from childhood to sink his Individuality In his family and that of his family In the nation If you ask mm how old he Is do not he surprised If he answers four or five hundred years meaning his family as for himself he has no Individual existence or age Japan Is a nation of families and the whole nation na-tion Is one family In the language o Y Mr y e t W r r r Image of Buddha at Kamakura the people distinctions of person and number are generally Ignored and true personal pronouns are entirely lacking In ancient times If one member mem-ber of the family came under the condemnation con-demnation of the law all the members wife and had to suffer with him even import children The duty of primary ance to the head of a house is to pert per-t to lie fnmllv and keep tho State um nmp v JVl LIU I v supplied with defenders Higher than duty to family and aris to the Emperor out of It Is duty ing which supersedes all the duties of recent tidal wave In the man In a turned northern part of Japan a father deaf ear to the cries of his drowning a them to wife and children permitting that he might save the Emper perish applauded for and ho was ors picture of patriotism such the act A spirit leaving seems heartless as It thtacro as and children to chance charity wife cer when In war the dead anti Piling up influence with a faith In the charged myriads of Its ancestral of teeming esoteric unller tho guidance of ghosts Cactor unimportant Is a not Shintoism the Invincible soldier tine In producing driving Russia out of tho Is today Phlladel In EastJ Ingram Brnn 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