Japan likewise put hopes victory a different basis prevalent United St — Ruth Benedict, Chrysanthemum Sword: Patterns Japanese Culture

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Japan likewise put her hopes of victory on a different basis from that prevalent in the United States. (…) Even when she was winning, her civilian statesmen, her High Command, and her soldiers repeated that this was no contest between armaments; it was pitting of our faith in things against their faith in spirit.

Ruth Benedict, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture

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