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Originally Posted by Fuzz
Japan and Germany were never driven by religion, and didn't live in anything like the situation the Palestinians are. These are vastly, vastly different situations and you can in no way make that assumption.
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Japan was kind of like a cult at that time. The emporor was considered a mortal descended from and in direct contact with the gods, otherwise known as kami. For followers of Shintoism, he wasn't divine himself, but he still needed to be obeyed and followed as if he was representing the gods.
A lot of people, even Japanese, acknowledge that defeating the Japanese military would not have been enough, but the society as a whole needed a shake up in order to advance.