>On 2011/03/28 15:15, SSJ-Forum Moderator wrote:
>From: Margaret Gibbons (gibbons@umich.edu)
>Date: 2011/03/24

>Dear SSJ Forum members,

>I just read an interview by Terril Yue Jones

After reading another article by him containing the quote below, I would have difficulty taking anything by Mr. Jones seriously.

OBEYING ORDERS
"It's their job. I think they're doing it of their own free will," said Masato Furusawa, a 47-year-old Tokyo construction worker. "They don't need convincing; it's something they have to do."

That reflects the Japanese value of unquestioningly following the orders of a leader, a master or an employer. Whether a 17th-century swordsman in the service of a local warlord or a 21st-century turbine engineer, Japanese are brought up with a strong sense of fealty and duty.

It's a spirit that has made some Japanese make comparisons between the nuclear workers forging into the reactors and Japan's "tokkoutai" of World War II -- the military special attack forces including kamikaze pilots.
http://hken.ibtimes.com/articles/124402/20110319/wearin
g-goggles-and-duct-tape-workers-race-to-repair-reactor.
htm#ixzz1HtC4QFvu

Earl H. Kinmonth