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he protects himself by imitating his environnement, just as certain
animal species do, and before you stands a Japanese of the Middle
Ages, unchanged and perhaps unchangeable. Except that the younger
generation… Yes, perhaps the younger generation. That’s what the
fathers of today’s fathers said, when the younger generation was
them. You don’t believe in it, in the American Japan, you think that
the Japanese is a warrior who has made a shield with a mirror. And
that the « real Japan, » as the magazines say, appears only inadvertently,
in the in-between once again, when a woman being interviewed on TV
answers the question « What do you wish? » with this answer that leaves
far behind all the Stoic phrases heaped on our youth: « That my death
should disturb as little as possible. »