Justice, courage, loyalty, self-control: the qualities essential to the Samuri warriors of Japan are those to which we all aspire. In this classic work, originally published as Bushido: the soul of Japan, Inazo Nitobe explores the moral code of the Japanese warrior class, from the importance of politeness rituals to the ultimate chilling self-sacrifice: hara-kiri or suicide. Nitobe's engaging text conjures up a world of chivalric principles and brutal warfare--a fading way of life, but one that has resonance in modern Japanese society and around the globe-- jacket.