Surrender appeals (“You will be treated in accordance with the principles of Bushido”) were unlikely to have much appeal to troops who knew about the Bataan death march and the torture-murders of captured Americans on Guadalcanal. In the decade preceding their surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, ...
Attacks by Marxists (Marx himself did not attend Basel) on Bakunin horrified the Japanese, who viewed them as absolutely unbecoming to both Marx’s status as a gentleman (even if the samurai class was now officially abhorred in Japan, the pseudofictional Bushido code still held sway in how...
Lets just get this clear. The Germans and the Japanese started WW2, and purely to enslave and conquer the world. The Axis power did horrendous things to civilians, from death camps to using them for medical experiments. Another point was to help ...
How was the Japanese Imperial Army structured? What parts of Bushido were in the Japanese Imperial Army? Who defeated Imperial Japan? Who did Imperial Japan control? Who was the emperor of Japan during the Boshin War? Did the Imperial Japanese Army issue Bushido?
In the lead-up to WW2, a special group of spies is established within the Japanese Army. Shows set in pre-war Japan are always great because the aesthetics are familiar but the culture is interestingly alien. Imperialist Japan viewed through the eyes of Liberal Democratic Japan viewed through ...