pacifist

"They're a very pacifist society. They don't fight, they don't argue, so I wasn't really prepared for these big bullies in school. But I just got through it."

"He is so non-military," Ms Fox told Reuters, adding that her brother "never had a gun, owned a gun, done any of that... He's more of a pacifist."

It’s also a country, scarred by two World Wars, that retains a strong pacifist streak fed by fears the existing conflict could escalate.

“In this family, we are pacifists,” he says finally.

Japan pledged to acquire what it calls counter-strike capability and purchased 400 Tomahawk long-range cruise missiles, a break from its postwar pacifist principles.