war in the
last
decade.
Many
Occidental
discussions
of Japan’s
sensitivity
to insult
and her
eagerness
to avenge
herself,
however,
would be
more
appropriate
to the
insult-using
tribes of
New Guinea
than they
are to
Japan, and
many
Westerners’
forecasts
of how
Japan
would
behave
after
defeat in
this war
were wide
of the
mark
because
they did
not
recognize
the
special
Japanese
limitations
upon giri
to one’s
name. The
politeness
of the
