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Originally Posted by jackknoff
Buddhists aren't necessarily peaceful. They are only peaceful in theory. The Japanese were mostly Buddhist in WWII, and all the crap that's happening in Thailand right now, a Buddhist country.
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Jack
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No, the official religion of Japan during WWII was Shinto.
Had you been awake in history class you would have known this.
http://japanese-history.suite101.com...n_1868_to_1945
From the citation:
"After the fall of the Tokugawa government in Japan around 1867, and with the rise of the following Meiji Restoration, Buddhism in Japan was reformed and disestablished in favor of Shinto. This period, beginning in 1868 and carrying on until roughly 1945 (the end of World War II), was a period of prominent nationalism across the country of Japan and was dominated in large part by the religious traditions of Shrine Shinto and Confucian principles of loyalty to the Japanese state and the emperor.
Read more at Suite101: Japanese Religion: 1868 to 1945: Religious Currents in Japan to the End of World War II:
http://japanese-history.suite101.com/article.cfm"/japanese_religion_1868_to_1945#ixzz0uZEX5vFv
Sally.