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17th November 2022

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Thinking about the Japanese holdouts and kamikaze and banzai charges and what amazing fucking morale Japan must have had in WWII

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  1. arcticdementor reblogged this from kontextmaschine
  2. plum-soup said: Who served in the IJN, even like 70 years after the fall of the Tokugawa, were still pretty heavily based on very old school samurai-type right wing Japanese nationalist exceptionalism (same attitudes that led to isolationist policies during the Tokugawa period)
  3. plum-soup said: ALSO there’s the historical context of the fact that the imperial Japanese navy was founded largely by former samurai from satsuma, Choshu, etc who tended to follow a more ‘traditional’ form of samurai culture than ppl from Honshu or any of the northern islands (interestingly this included age structured gay sex/mentorship relationships which they very begrudgingly gave up after homosexuality was banned as part of the westernization drive during the Meiji period) and so the values of people
  4. steampunkforever said: How does that stack up against things like partisan fighters (often coming from the disbanded militaries) from other wars
  5. plum-soup said: Also Japanese war propaganda in WWII did a bunch of samurai movies (with obvious right wing nationalist messages smuggled in) if that gives you any hint as to what sort of value system wartime Japan was following
  6. plum-soup said: It’s not so much morale as cultural attitudes on war and violence and honor and shit like that. I guess you can say that stuff increased morale but people were willing to do that kind of stuff because of societal values they had been raised to believe, not because the government had very good war propaganda (I mean they did that too but IMO that’s not really the source of the motivations most of those ppl had)
  7. kontextmaschine posted this
    Thinking about the Japanese holdouts and kamikaze and banzai charges and what amazing fucking morale Japan must have had...