(2) When foreigners make inquiries, answer them politely.  If unable
     to make them understand, inform the police of the fact.

     (3) Never accept a present from a foreigner when there is no reason
     for his giving it, and never charge him anything above what is
     proper.

     (4) Do not crowd around a shop when a foreigner is making
     purchases, thereby causing him much annoyance.  The continuance of
     this practice disgraces us as a nation.

(5) Since all human beings are brothers and sisters, there is no reason for fearing foreigners.  Treat them as equals and act uprightly in all your dealings with them.  Be neither servile nor arrogant.

     (6) Beware of combining against the foreigner and disliking him
     because he is a foreigner; men are to be judged by their conduct
     and not by their nationality.

(7) As intercourse with foreigners becomes closer and extends over a series of years, there is danger that many Japanese may become enamored of their ways and customs and forsake the good old customs of their forefathers.  Against this danger you must be on your guard.

     (8) Taking off your hat is the proper way to salute a foreigner. 
     The bending of the body low is not be commended.

     (9) When you see a foreigner be sure and cover up naked parts of
     the body.

     (10) Hold in high regard the worship of ancestors and treat your
     relations with warm cordiality, but do not regard a person as your
     enemy because he or she is a Christian.

     (11) In going through the world you will often find a knowledge of
     a foreign tongue absolutely essential.

     (12) Beware of selling your souls to foreigners and becoming their
     slaves.  Sell them no houses or lands.

     (13) Aim at not being beaten in your competition with foreigners. 
     Remember that loyalty and filial piety are our most precious
     national treasures and do nothing to violate them.

Many of the above rules are excellent in tone.  Number 7, however, which hails from Osaka, is somewhat narrow and prejudiced.  The injunction not to sell houses to foreigners is, as the Jiji Shimpo points out, absurd and mischievous.[H]

The sensitiveness of the people also works to the advantage of the nation in the social unity which it helps to secure.  Indeed I cannot escape the conviction that the striking unity of the Japanese is largely due to this characteristic.  It tends to make their mental and emotional activities synchronous.  It retards reform for a season, to be sure, but later it accelerates it.  It makes it difficult for individuals to break away from their surroundings and start out on new lines.  It leads to a general progress while it tends to hinder individual progress.  It tends to draw back into the general current of national life those individuals who, under exceptional conditions, may have succeeded in breaking away from it for a season.  This, I think, is one of the factors of no little power at work among the Christian churches in Japan.  It is one, too, that the Japanese themselves little perceive; so far as I have observed, foreigners likewise fail to realize its force.