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The duty of every Japanese to our Emperor is to help to make our country strong and wealthy, and to help to defend and preserve our national independence. All know the danger. All are morally and physically trained to meet it. Every public school gives its students a preparatory course of military discipline; every town has its _bataillons scolaires_. Even the children too young to be regularly drilled are daily taught to sing in chorus the ancient songs of loyalty and the modern songs of war. And new patriot songs are composed at regular intervals, and introduced by Government approval into the schools and the camps. It is quite an experience to hear four hundred students chanting one of these at the school in which I teach. The young men are all in uniform on such occasions, and marshaled in military rank. The commanding officer gives the order to