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Updated: May 18, 2025
The ready resignation to "fate," as they deem it, even in little things about the home and in the daily life, is astonishing to Occidentals. Where we hold ourselves and each other to sharp personal responsibility, the sense of subjection to fate often leads them to condone mistakes with the phrase "Shikataga nai." But this characteristic is not peculiar to Japan.
One of its important points of superiority was its freedom from appeal to magic in any form, and its reliance on sincerity of heart and correctness of conduct. Few foreigners have failed to comment on the universal use by the Japanese of the phrase "Shikataga nai," "it can't be helped."
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