Yeah I read about that, but there didn’t seem to be a political ideology driving it. It all seemed to me to be nothing more then blind unscrupulous ambition.
Oh well one of histories mysteries, I guess !
“but there didn’t seem to be a political ideology”
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So called Japanese Jingoism. In 1920s,30s, Japanese fascist intellectuals promoted national socialism(domestic), pan-Asia(expansion).
One of reason of the brutality of military was that the empire of Japan military failed to upgraded their equipments like Britain, Germany and France did. The modernisation proposal split the leadership
, led to a coup detat, due to the budget and shortage of industrial resources.