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tions, recommendations, requirements or rules. The Japanese say that,
as an alleged “chosen race”, they are anyhow on the righteous path.

This is obviously a great lie. As we have already mentioned, this is a
fabricated and irrational myth by which the Japanese delude them-
selves.
No nation or people can claim supremacy because of race, ances-
try, language or ethnicity as superiority is only relative to one’s close-
ness to Allah, Who says: “… The noblest among you in Allah’s Sight
is the one of you who best performs his duty.” (Surat al-Hujurat: 13)

(See chapter: “India’s cruel social order”)
Some Japanese people developed a very strict and merciless code
of honor as a consequence of considering themselves a supreme and sa-
cred race, a code which has no room for mercy for mistakes or errors in
life; so much so, that it is common practice to commit suicide in the face
of failure. For centuries the tradition of “Hara-kiri” (also known as
“seppuku”), or the disemboweling of oneself by ones own knife or
sword was in wide-scale practice and continues in the present day un-
der a variety of ways. In modern day Japan, people who fail university
entrance exams, break down under the pressure of the education sys-

tem or suffer bankruptcy, commonly commit suicide. 113 Japan leads the
list of industrialized countries in terms of its suicide rate 114 with 33,000
recorded suicides in the year 2000. 115 This is a consequence of living
outside religious morality. Shintoists are removed from moral qualities
like modesty, patience, faith and compassion, which are prescribed by
Divine religions, and considers this perversity, inherited from their an-
cestors, as honor. The fact that they do not believe in death, hereafter,

hell and paradise can cause them to be extremely cruel and uncompas-
sionate towards themselves as well as others. Their self-righteous sense
of pride and their image as perceived by others is so important to them

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)