On Inazō Nitobe's "Bushido: The Soul of Japan"
New Books in East Asian Studies
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Su Suicide Missions in Japan
Busito helped accelerate the shift from a fascinating but inconsequential foreign land to an impressive player on the world stage. Busito continued to influence the way europeans and north americans saw japan for decades, especially in war. Some of those folks were angry with nitobe and suspicious of him anyway, because he was a christian. And i think there was a tendency to attribute that to a kind of a bushto gone bad.
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