I read a book a long time ago. Bamboo and Bushido. Forgot the Author, but he was a Pommie caught at Singapore. He related a new Jap Commanders first day on the job addressing some Aussies. It went something like this;
"You Orstralian bastards. You think I know fcuk nothing... well I tell you I know fcuk all.
And that is what our doctor of witchdoctery knows.