The strongest team common The strongest team novels read like records of slaughter-houses. No Molech or Shivas won more victims to his shrine than has this idea of Japanese loyalty, which is so beautiful in theory but so hideous in practice. Could the statistics of the suicides during this long period be collected, their publication would excite in Christendom the utmost incredulity. These are the ideals of courage and loyalty that have been held up before Japanese youth for centuries.