本尼迪克特在《菊与刀》中描绘了一个优雅与残暴并存的日本形象。大和民族的彬彬有礼,似乎有目共睹,二战中日军的累累暴行同样令世界为之瞠目。当日本人以“无论善人还是恶人,死了都是佛”这一所谓的大和民族的生死观为那些罪不可恕的战犯开脱的时候,我们不能不认真思 Benedict in “Chrysanthemum and Knife” depicts a Japanese image of elegant and brutal coexistence. The politeness of the Yamato nation seems to be obvious to all. The world atrocities of the Japanese army during the Second World War also made the world look down upon it. When Japan excused the so-called Daiwa nationality’s concept of life and death from extremist war criminals who excused sin, whether good or evil, and died as Buddhas, we can not but think seriously