STATE RELIGION
SENTIMENT OF LOYALTY IN JAPAN.
What the We.it too often fails to take into account is that in Japan religion and the sentiment of loyalty to the State are one, as 'nowhere else in the world, writes Mr Edward Shanks in the “Sunday Times.” The Soviet Union may perhaps be in process of making something of a religion out of loyalty to the State, and so, perhaps, may Nazi Germany. But in Japan the process was accomplished many centuries ago. There is no need for the Japanese ever to say, “My country, right or wrong.” His country is the Emperor, and the Emperor cannot ever be wrong. The way of life which the Emperor personifies is the right way, and therefore it is meritorious, vzhenever opportunity offers, to extend it over the surface of the earth.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1938, Page 9
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138STATE RELIGION Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1938, Page 9
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