I see it as a reflection of the Japanese spirit of helping one another,' he says.
Tetsu had been infused with yamato-dama-shii, the intense Japanese spirit.
In them the Japanese spirit is high.
Nakasone talked often about the need to promote the "Japanese spirit."
The problem is that no one can explain to the rest of the world exactly what "Japanese spirit" means, or how it translates into specific policies.
The exhibition hall was designed in the Japanese spirit.
This true Japanese spirit needed to be revealed by removing a thousand years of negative Chinese learning.
The Japanese spirit had come to be synonymous with acquiescing to nature, the elements of the cosmos.
Attack was the policy that best fit the Japanese spirit, he believed.
Their work reaffirmed the Japanese spirit of Yamato-e, which they made many copies.