Any attempt to understand the Japanese must begin with their version of
what it means to ‘take one's proper station.’ Their reliance upon order
and hierarchy and our faith in freedom and equality are poles apart and
it is hard for us to give hierarchy its just due as a possible social
mechanism. Japan's confidence in hierarchy is basic in her whole notion
of man's relation to his fellow man and of man's relation to the State
and it is only by describing some of their national institutions like
the family, the State, religious
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