During the summer of 1941, Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe, ordered the Minister of Education of Japan to compose a "Bible of the Japanese People", under the title of Shinmin no Michi, which was also sometimes called Hito-do (Subject's Way), or Shinja-do (The Path of the Follower).
The Shinmin no Michi offered three chapters which required only a few minutes of reading, explaining how subjects to the Emperor were to behave.