ABSTRACT
IT has become clear in the course of the present study that the political ideology of modern militarist Japan is based on certain elements of a religious or pseudo-religious nature which, however genuine or artificially construed, permeate this particular brand of Eastern totalitarianism in all its aspects and all its activities. There is probably no country in the world where statecraft and practical politics are so inextricably interwoven with religious and mystical notions as Japan. Religion pervades and penetrates everything and, so the Japanese say, ultimately motivates everything, from the conception of the State and its head down to the smallest military engagement on the Burmese frontier.
