It was quoted in _The Chrysanthemum and the Sword_ and appears to be a
japanese idiom.
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What's 'to take one's proper station' in japanese?
応分の場を占める （おうぶんのばをしめる） This is the title of the third chapter I found through a
google search. It translates more literally to "Occupy the appropriate area"
more or less.

But, it's slightly different in the link the person posted above, so I'm not
sure which is the original.
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The truth is that no one knows for sure.

That is because the book's author Ruth Benedict simply **_does not_**
elucidate in the book what the exact Japanese saying is that she translates as
"to take one's proper station".

According to what I could gather online, however, many Japanese Benedict
scholars seem to believe that the phrase is:

「各々{おのおの}其{そ}ノ所{ところ}ヲ得{う}」

which indeed means "Each takes his proper station."
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