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What a Japanese person actually thinksReads like a machine translated it — which is exactly what happened. The specific flavour is corporate training seminar: the same register as 顧客第一主義 ('customer-first-ism'). It's not funny, it's just flat and obviously foreign.
Meaning
- Literally
- soldier + spirit/mentality
- Actually
- Technically parseable as 'warrior mentality'. But no Japanese person has ever written this. It's two abstract nouns stacked because English put two words next to each other.
Scores
Naturalness●●●●●
Grammatical, and completely unused. This is the textbook example of translationese: every word correct, the whole thing wrong.
Coolness●●●●●
Zero. It has the visual density of a good kanji tattoo and the soul of a PowerPoint slide.
Watch out
- high戦士 is closer to 'soldier' or a fantasy-RPG 'warrior' than to a samurai. Combined with 精神 it lands somewhere near 'combatant mindset'.
Get this instead
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武士道
bushidō
the warrior's codeThe real, established phrase for what you're reaching at.
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闘魂
tōkon
fighting spiritA real word, two characters, genuinely punchy. Famously Antonio Inoki's motto — so it reads as sincere fighting spirit, with a wrestling association.
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不撓不屈
futō fukutsu
indomitableIf the meaning you want is 'I don't break', this is the established phrase.
On skin
戦士精神
Orientation: either
N/A — change the words.