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If the Emperor had not delivered his [15 August 1945] address urging the Japanese people to lay down their swords__f that speech had been a call instead for the Honorable Death of the Hundred Million__hose people on that street in S_shigaya probably would have done what they were told and died. And probably I would have done likewise. The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self-sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life. We were accustomed to this teaching and had never thought to question it.
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If the Emperor had not delivered his [15 August 1945] address urging the Japanese people to lay down their swords__f that speech had been a call instead for the Honorable Death of the Hundred Million__hose people on that street in S_shigaya probably would have done what they were told and died. And probably I would have done likewise. The Japanese see self-assertion as immoral and self-sacrifice as the sensible course to take in life. We were accustomed to this teaching and had never thought to question it.
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