To demonstrate this point, the Japanese businessman is compared to a Samurai warrior or kamikaze pilot in "The Idea of Japan," "The Japanese know that you never come to a negotiation showing your true nature. To deal effectively with you, they must find this out...It's a game of masks at which the Japanese are adept."(3) The book goes on to cite Japan's defeat in World War II as an open wound, and the Japanese are looking to reassert themselves through their new economic power(3).