Bushido code

In Japan, most military tradition was based on the bushido code.

He follows the Bushido code of honor and does not like to do things in an indirect fashion.

Despite the emphasis on the Bushido code, a wide array of sneaky actions are possible.

The Bushido code demands complete, total, unthinking, unquestioning obedience.

It was one of the primary traditions in the samurai life and the Bushido code: loyalty and honour until death.

He is driven by his code of honor a reference to the Samurai Bushido code.

Besides being dishonorable, against the New Bushido Code, it would wipe out planetary populations as well as the invaders."

The New Bushido Code which governed Colonel Kassad's life had evolved out of the necessity for the military class to survive.

Powers and Baron pitched a story based on a reptilian race following a code of honor similar to the bushido code of the Samurai.

The Japanese bushido code of honor, coupled with effective propaganda which portrayed American G.I.s as ruthless animals, prevented surrender for many Japanese soldiers.

Sadao Araki, an Army theorist, devised the contemporary adaptation to bushido code as a Seishin Kyoiku (spiritual training) doctrine for the army.

Such men had turned into bandits, or worse, after they'd lost contact with the bushido code that had for a thousand years sustained the elements of the Japanese population entitled to carry and use weapons.

For Fuchida, this was inexplicable, as in the Bushido code revenge was not only permitted, it was "a responsibility" for an offended party to carry out revenge to restore honor.

Children were taught through the bushido code that they must do nothing that would cause others to laugh at them or bring disgrace upon their families--identical to the principle of filotimo that Greek immigrants cherished.

By playing strictly within the rules of Bushido Code which governs the conduct of all samurai, he lures the powerful leader into a situation where sheer naked logic leaves him humiliated before his retainers."

He offers some interesting conjecture especially about the disappearance of the Bushido code, the "way of the warrior," that had endured through the centuries of feudal rule in Japan, the domination of samurais and their lords.

Link gains a measure of respect for the strict bushido code Kuroda follows, and eventually comes to an agreement with the samurai that Gauche will not be killed before he reveals the location of the stolen money.

Whipple also discloses that the Empire of Japan has retained its militarist ascendancy, with reference to its bushido code of conduct, while the United States vacillates against the Greater Soviet Union's ascendancy.

Jim Jarmusch paid homage to Le Samouraï with the 1999 crime-drama, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, starring Forest Whitaker as a meditative, loner assassin who lives by the bushido code.

Jiro Kimura felt ashamed of himself and his comrades, these Japanese soldiers, with their Bushido code and their delicate sense of honor which required the death of everyone on an airliner leaving the battle zone because someone, somewhere gave an order.

While she intended on leaving the Shinsengumi after fulfilling her revenge, she soon decides to stay with the group once she realizes for herself what exactly it means to be a follower of the Bushido code, in other words, having something to stand by and protect at all costs.

As part of the samurai or bushido code (Way of the Warrior), this worldview was brought forward into twentieth-century Japan from the old warring days of feudal Japan, and impressed onto the twentieth-century soldier, most of whom descended from non-samurai families.

Araki was a noted political philosopher within the Army, who linked the ancient bushido code of the samurai with ideas similar to European fascism to form the ideological basis of his philosophy, which linked the Emperor, the people, land and morality as one and indivisible.

Baden-Powell also drew inspiration for the Scout Law from the Bushido code of the Japanese Samurai, laws of honor of the American Indians, the code of chivalry of European knights, and the Zulu fighters he had fought against.

Therefore, he argues, the "real puzzle" has to do less with Japan's proneness toward exceptional cruelty in World War II and more with its disavowal of brutality in its prior wars, and that argument, in turn, brings us to the power of the earlier Bushido code.