 Drawing on Japanese "samurai" traditions, American propagandists portrayed the Japanese as blindly fanatic and ruthless, with a history of desiring overseas conquests.Japanese propaganda, such as "Shinmin no Michi" or "The Way of the Subjects", called for the Japanese people to become "one hundred million hearts beating as one"—which Allied propagandists used to portray the Japanese as a mindless, unified mass.Atrocities were ascribed to the Japanese people as a whole.