They enjoyed the pageantry of the war, the singing and marching, the invitation to trample and spit on American and British flags, the monthly reading of the Imperial Rescript on Education, and the group calisthenics each morning, when they all stripped to the waist (girls included) and chanted: “Annihilate America and England! One-Two-Three-Four! Annihilate America and England! One-Two-Three-Four!”
