'gentleness, acceptance of diversity & harmony of spirit

[Taro Toporific]

<hee, hee>
Karate in Iraq signals Japan's foreign policy
japantoday > kuchikomi / Sunday, September 5, 2004 at 07:42 JST
...Seiichi Kondo, director-general of the Public Diplomacy Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, says that the future of foreign relations lies in public diplomacy, which is directed toward a country's people...
Writing in Seiron magazine in an article titled "Karate in Iraq Signals the Future of Japanese Foreign Policy," ....
Kondo writes, "A value system that places priority on things that cannot be seen by the eye, such as Japanese culture's gentleness, acceptance of diversity, and harmony of the spirit, evokes the wisdom for overcoming divisions."

[blackcat]

"Japanese culture's gentleness, acceptance of diversity"

yes ishihara is the poster boy of this

[cstaylor]

C'mon blackcat, I've come to expect more from you. Ishihara is too easy a target... give us something more, like "We're accepting, unless you overstay a couple of days, and then *pow* out the door!"