Show NEVER DEIGN TO EXPLAIN Japanese Have a Peculiar Philosophy Which Westerners Find It Rather Hard to Understand d. d A Philadelphia lady now resident In Japan has written to a n friend In her home city a letter which the Public Ledger reproduces uces In part because It Itis is 19 so flue fine ne In Its reading rendIng from within of the Japanese nation and nature Mrs says I HI am nm hoping that the light mays may rany s soon dawn upon the uninformed formed mind of f America In reference to the true thought of Japan It It Itis ItI I Is part t of 01 th the Samurai training not to o explain n. n ir U you are wrong show that you acknowledge your error error error er er- er- er by changing your our conduct No amount of 01 explanation can set the tho wrong right If It you are right and your our accuser is mistaken time will make manifest the justice of ot your cause This Is the underlying thought of f this particular teaching If It I Is I believe often carried too far far certainly certainly It may prove misleading to an Impatient westerner westerner west west west- erner and I Ido do not hesitate to say that I 1 have at times resented th the situation It has created On the other either hand It Is Impossible 44 to bare ones one's soul to the unsympathetic Ie ic or curiously minded Every HEvery man or woman oman of fine feelIng feelIng feeling feel- feel Ing knows that and the Japanese are singularly sensitive to a s sympathetic or an uns unsympathetic a coarse or an understanding probing |