Great Foul Ball as if it were an almost Home Run.

But it was a wonderful misunderstanding. American Female anthropologist"Ruth Benedict"couldn't understood Japanese culture after all,although her famous works and studies about Japan.

"The Chrysanthemum and the Sword;Patterns of Japanese Culture邦題「菊と刀」"is an influential 1946 study of Japan by her written at the invitation of the U.S. authority in order to understand and predict the behavior of the Japanese in War by reference to a series of contradictions in traditional culture.

The book was influential in shaping American ideas about Japanese culture.during the occupation of Japan. and popularized the distinctive concept between guilt cultures and shame cultures.Although it has received harsh criticism, the book has continued to be influential.

To be short,she couldn't comprehend Japanese mind or ego, because she didn't have Japanese language skill, and it was natural for her to miss Japanese guilty sense or consciousness. We can only understand a pattern of behavior If it's mind we can't understand.A shame emotion accompanies with a physical response outside ,so it is easy for an observer to recognize it.To recognize Japanese guilt sense,You have to be familiar with a difference of usage of Japanese very much.Japanese often have guilty sense for the dead(especially KAMIKAZE is a some sort of martyr for many Japanese still now. ) this is all.(It is a Fact that she couldn't understand Japanese language at all.Was it a JOKE?)Whoever want to know other culture shall to make an effort to acquire it's language skill.

Moreover It was a ridiculous shameful response that many Japanese intellectuals accommodated themselves to her odd theory.