 It called for them to become "one hundred million hearts beating as one" – a call that would reappear in American anti-Japanese propaganda, though "Shinmin no Michi" explicitly said that many Japanese "failed" to act in this manner.The obedience called for was to be blind and absolute.The war would be a purifying experience to draw them back to the "pure and cloudless heart" of their inherent character that they had strayed from.