By then, Fellers and his staff had compressed “Japanese behavior patterns” that could be exploited by the Allies into a fifteen-point mantra: “inferiority complex, credulousness, regimented thought, tendency to misrepresent, self-dramatization, strong sense of responsibility, super-aggressiveness, brutality, inflexibility, tradition of self-destruction, superstition, face-saving tendency, intense emotionality, attachment to home and family, and Emperor worship.”
