| Show future japanese soldiers early learn to hope to die for beloved emperor you cannot assess the japanese arm army y numerically japanese officers officer shave have often protested to me with a smile that the japanese soldier is not a whit superior mentally morally or physically to the soldier of the west yet they insist that he is in fact a letter better soldier because unlike other soldiers he courts death as his greatest honor writes Willard 7 price in the london spectator the training of men who will go 90 to their doom with the unswerving directness of robots robot ls a weird and unworldly process it begins 2000 years before the soldier is born has taught the japanese race to think well of itself and the japanese individual to regard himself as nothing but the dirt to be ground under the chariot wheels of the progress of his race the ope one must give himself for the all what better racial tradition could there be for the making of die easy soldiers active military training begins at the age of six boys in the first year of primary school are taught to march drill do the goose step sing war songs and marshal platoons of wooden soldiers morals is a required subject in every primary and middle school from six to seventeen the future soldier is drilled not in morals we would understand the suba but in morals with an imperi M loyalty to the immediate family the larger family which is called the nation and the emperor who is the father of all this goes on until many students when asked what is your dearest wish will sincerely enough set down this answer to die for my beloved emperor |
