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The Japanese called it seishin. In Western parlance, the US War Department’s Handbook on Japanese Military Forces lectured, the closest equivalent to this alien concept was “spirit,” something the Asian opponent regarded as a “mystic virtue which can overcome material weapons in profane hands.”1
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© 2002 Peter Schrijvers
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Schrijvers, P. (2002). Industrial Violence. In: The GI War Against Japan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230505278_10
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