An ancient Japanese General

An ancient Japanese General and an old British Major were talking.
"Why do you always win battles, whereas we always seem to lose all our wars, except the economic ones?" asked the Japanese General.
"Because we dlwdys pray to God before we go into battle" replied the British Major.
"That's not so, because we also pray to God but we never win"
"Ah!" said the British Major, "but not everyone can understand Japanese"