is
revenge.
Markino
cleared
his name
by getting
to America
but
revenge
ranks high
in
Japanese
tradition
as a ‘good
thing’
under
circumstances
of insult
or defeat.
Japanese
who write
books for
Western
readers
have
sometimes
used vivid
figures of
speech to
describe
the
Japanese
attitudes
about
revenge.
Inazo
Nitobe,
one of the
most
benevolent
men in
Japan,
writing in
1900,
says: ‘In
revenge
there is
something
that
satisfies
