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The Japanese are allergic to politics. Their ideal political system looks a lot like the shogunate: a caste of leaders making decisions where the common folk ought not to be involved. It would be fair to describe modern-day Japan as "democracy without republicanism".
Therefore, the military is portrayed as an autonomous entity (outside the realm of politics, oftentimes as the "pure" faction), rather than what it is in reality:
>War is not merely an act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse carried on with other means
>The main lines along which military events progress, and to which they are restricted, are political lines that continue throughout the war into the subsequent peace. How could it be otherwise?...Is war not just another expression of their thoughts, another form of speech or writing? Its grammar, indeed, may be its own, but not its logic."

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