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  • One telling point of conflict in the postwar years was the notion of shushin (moral education), which was at the center of the traditional curriculum and taught the value of filial piety, loyalty, nationalism and, above all, fealty to the Emperor.

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  • In 1957, five years after the occupation ended, shushin was restored, minus its ultranationalist trappings and with the new name of dotoku.

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  • The American overseers saw shushin as part of the country's problem and banned it.

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