What destroyed the Bushido philosophy?
The Japanese soldier was one of the fiercest warriors ever produced on Earth. Their heinous deeds are so grotesque that Nazi observers in Nanking were “sickened”. Here, 350,000 unarmed men, women and children were slaughtered in ways as diverse as they were evil. Four years of war in a losing effort did not do stop them. They were going to fight to the death to defend their mainland and their emperor. Rather, two atomic bombs made their philosophy look as ridiculous as it was. It was over in minutes. Unfortunately, when the war was over no one bothered to execute one to the prime culprits … Hirohito. This war criminal was allowed to survive so that Japanese culture would not be totally destroyed. You see, they knew the importance of cutting off the philosophical base of a culture. The Bushido and Zen were gone but the Shinto remained. Now, we have the spectacle of a “modern” race of people working on computers and worshiping a man-god at the same time. Kinda’ reminds me of the Islami
