Journal #3 (Marion Masada)

Haji

Do not bring shame, disgrace, dishonor on your family, your community, your country

Gaman

To endure, persevere, patience, fortitude, and internal fortitude, keeping your troubles and extraordinary feats to yourself, don’t reveal how you feel, especially when suffering, “suck it up”.

Shikata ga nai

Things can’t be helped so do what you can to overcome and move forward

Enryo

Be reserved, be modest, act in humility, put others first. If you do something good, you do not talk about it.

Giri

Sense of duty, obligation to family, to community, to country.

On

Honor and responsibility, sense of grateful obligation, debt of gratitude to family, to community, to country

Komodo no tame ni

For the sake of the children, protect them from negative experiences and attitude