Be loyal to the Emperor, be filial to your parents, be affectionate to your brothers and sisters, be harmonious in your married life, be trustworthy to your friends, be modest and moderate in your conduct, extend your benevolence to all others, study learning and cultivate arts, and thereby develop intellectual faculties and perfect moral powers; furthermore, advance public good and promote common interests; always respect the Constitution and observe the laws; should emergency arise, offer yourselves courageously to the State; and thus guard and maintain the prosperity of Our Imperial Throne coeval with heaven and earth.
Modernized Japan