We just need to be sure that the final result does not look like a humiliating defeat: to have lost so many men and now abandoned it all... in short, we have to get out of there.

It was not just defeat in two world wars.

The Japanese are an unfortunate people who have rarely felt pride in their country or government since the defeat in World War II.

After its defeat in the second world war, and the dropping of the atom bombs, it espoused peaceful growth.

What happened was a rare case of the religion of the defeated spreading among the victors.