Many foreigners are familiar with the Japanese term kata (kah-tah) from its use in the martial arts, where it describes the forms or processes used in training. But kata are far more
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There was a way of eating (tabe-kata), a way of walking (aruki-kata), a way of thinking (kangae-kata), a way of reading (yomi-kata), a way of writing (kaki-kata), a way of talking (hanashi-kata), a way of doing things in general (yari-kata), and so on across the entire spectrum of Japanese behavior.
In earlier times the interjection of personal preference or deviation for any reason from these prescribed
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Failure to bow properly to a samurai warrior, for example, could get one shortened by a head. There was a shogunate edict which said that a samurai could kill anyone on the spot who failed to follow the prescribed forms of behavior. [This edict was
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This prescribed and enforced conformity to exact ways of doing things had a profound influence on the character and personality of the Japanese, making them homogenous to an extraordinary degree as well as predictable, because everybody was taught and trained to think and do things the same way.
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