How a samurai classic shared Japanese values with the West

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  Phys.org · October 27, 2026 11:10
  In 1899, Inazo Nitobe published a book in English called "Bushido: The Soul of Japan." Nitobe was born into a samurai family and later became a Christian. He wrote the book after a Belgian legal scholar asked him how Japan taught morality without religious instruction in its schools. Nitobe came…