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Jishiku = Self Restraint = Solidarity
by David LaPlantz ·
Jishiku is the Japanese word for self restraint.
David was listening to “Here and Now” on KSFR, Santa Fe, NM’s only public radio station, about the Japanese restraining themselves from buying, using electricity, etc. in solidarity with their sisters and brothers still affected by the results of the earthquake and tsunami. He was touched by the their action or lack of, as the case may be.
Perhaps Americans could learn an important lesson from the Japanese jishiku?
