Corrupt Buddhist traditions were a major issue for the Japanese, historically, up till the modern era. Depending on the time period you'd have monks going on literal 2020 tier George Floyd riots burning down cities and had armies to rival the various warlords of the warring states.
And just like St. Floyd, if you tried fighting back against their guys, they and their financial backers ensured you got written down in historical chronicles as an "evil tyrant who is now burning in the deepest pit of hell."
Exactly what happened to Oda Nobunaga. He went out of his way to break the military might of a certain monastery that kidnapped and killed hostages and burned part of their own monastery to the ground and yet they blamed it on him. Apparently it's recently been discovered via archeology that he went out of his way to try and minimize civilian casualties and saved several buildings the monks burned, but the monks and their allies (as well as Tokugawa, who had a vested interest in making himself look better than Nobunaga) went out of their way to demonize him historically over it.
its not like to this day that American bases in Japan have the highest rates of reported rapes in the areas where they are situated
You got any sources for this? I'm genuinely curious. This sounds like a source of giant fuck ups. Entertaining, preventable kind that lead to thousands of people dying unfortunately.
fuck you got me there I heard it from somewhere else but lemme see if I can find it
Goddamn.
Gotta love how these things turn out. It's like a tragedy except it's real life.
The Imperial Japanese Army ran their own navy (called the "Railway and Shipping Section") with tens of thousands of sailors because the Imperial Japanese Navy was too slow to set up decent convoy operations (since escorting ships was considered unimportant and a task for fuckups in the Navy). They even had their own aircraft carriers like the Akitsu-maru which were akin to the CVEs the US Navy had. Other ships they had like Shinshu-maru are basically ancestors of the amphibious assault ship. They could carry all sorts of smaller landing craft, river boats, and aircraft.
That's what is taught in Western universities, too. "Japan was nuked because of RACISM!!! They were trying to surrender!!!" Total fucking bullshit.
Imperial Japan reclaimed and updated their traditional religion. That's an inherently good thing.
I see now. It's the sort of reconstructionist aspect you like, like with language preservation projects.
It's because it was an actually practical version for their society. Not like the "reconstructionism" of Western neopagans.
Sounds like they actually had a good plan rather than attacking a random superpower an ocean away
It wasn't though because Japan was dependent on US scrap iron, finished steel, and distilled oil, and the US stopped selling those to Japan because of its invasions of mainland Asia, not because of December 7