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Pradyu Prasad - Imperial Japan, the God Emperor, and Militarization in the Modern World

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The History of the Japanese Civil War

The Japanese elite didn't have as much of a then seeking class as the Chinese elite did. The second thing is Japan already had a small tradition of worshipping the emperor's god and became politically convenient for the chagrinet now. Compare that to a lot of East Asia where they either could live in their own alternate reality or were forced to deal with reality faster.

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