Re: kamakazi pilots

From: aelarsen_at_facstaff.wisc.edu
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2000 17:44:03 -0600


>From: Tadaaki Kakegawa <yelmalio_at_za2.so-net.ne.jp>
>Subject: Re: The Glorantha Digest V7 #375
>
>On Thu, 10 Feb 2000 16:30:11 -0800
>owner-glorantha-digest_at_chaosium.com (The Glorantha Digest) wrote:
>
>The>> Indeed. Even Buddhists get into the act. The Kamakazi
>pilots were
>The>>largely buddhist, or so I have been given to understand.
>
> No no, Kamikaze pilots largely believe in National Shinto-ism (Kokka
> Shinto), which was MADE during Modernization to unite subjects under
> the name of Emperor, who was living god (int its context). And National
> Shinto was made under influence of Christianism.

        Are you certain of this? I was informed that many of them were of the Nichi-ren sect of Buddhism.

Andrew E. Larsen


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