True Bushido Code

True Bushido Code
True Bushido Code

Monday, June 9, 2008

Bushido: The True Boy Scout Code?


Did you know that Bushido: The Soul of Japan written by Inazo Nitobe a study of the way of the samurai, was a major best-seller in its day, it was read by many influential foreigners, among them President Theodore Roosevelt, President John F. Kennedy and Robert Baden-Powell. It may even have shaped Baden-Powell's philoshophies on which the Boy Scouts were founded.

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