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Bushido: The Soul of Japan

by Inazo Nitobe

Bushido: The Soul of Japan is, along with Hagakure by Yamamoto Tsunetomo a study of the way of the samurai. A best-seller in its day, it was read by many influential foreigners, among them President Theodore Roosevelt, President John F. Kennedy and Robert Baden-Powell, the founder of the Boy Scouts.

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English

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English

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1899

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Nitobe Inazō was a Japanese author, educator, agricultural economist, diplomat, politician, and Protestant Christian during the late Meiji era. Nitobe was born in Morioka, Mutsu Province (present-day...

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