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    It is not the case that Bushidō philosophy was resistant to philosophical critique

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    • 1.Inoue Tetsujirō's systematic philosophical elaboration of Bushidō invited substantive academic critique from within Meiji intellectual culture.
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    • 2.Scholars like Ukita Kazutami and Christian thinkers such as Uchimura Kanzō publicly challenged Bushidō's ethical foundations despite institutional pressures.
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    • 3.The existence of documented internal dissent demonstrates that institutional protection and critique-resistance are empirically distinguishable conditions.
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    • 1.Nitobe Inazō's 'Bushido: The Soul of Japan' (1900) was written in English precisely to invite cross-cultural philosophical scrutiny, not to foreclose it.
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    • 2.A doctrine deliberately framed for international philosophical audience cannot simultaneously be characterized as structurally resistant to philosophical critique.
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    • 1.Bushidō's tenets were couched in terms deemed traditional, obscuring their actual novelty
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    • 2.Bushidō was protected by government censorship
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    • 3.Bushidō was institutionalized in the mandatory national educational curriculum (National Morality)
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