Why did the Japanese abandon their centuries-old martial culture so quickly after WW2? Why did the soldiers heckle and laugh at Mishima?
I can think of two pretty big reasons.
>>18454439because they got btfo'd hard, imagine being the average nip who had to sacrifice so much in terms of quality of life and members of your family dying, all so the military which had essentially taken over by force can just do whatever, and the end result of all that sacrifice and death, was just them getting beaten and occupied by a forgein power something that nobody would have concieved of until that time, it was inevitable they would stray away from it
>>18454439Mishima was the platonic ideal of a LARPer. The real question is why they let him and his ERP group in the military base in the first place.People just let you do anything you wanted in the 70s.
>>18454439Most Japanese were filled with immense bitterness and hatred towards the military post-war for the suffering they caused them to endure. Even young disabled conscripts were treated like dogshit for their role in military service. The military regime wasn't even popular during the war, it was just that nobody could voice their discontent without the kempeitai knocking on their door. But once that regime was gone, the discontent became very loud.Embracing Defeat by John W. Dower is a good book on this subject.
because why would they join him? life was good in japan during that time. mishima also perfectly knew that and he was just looking for a good reason to kill himself
>>18454439>centuries-old martial culturethey didn't have one of those. Indeed, Edo Japan perhaps had the longest sustained period of peace of any country on Earth.Japanese imperialism was 51 years old at the time of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and looked back to precedents older than English colonization of the New World to try to justify its expansionist foreign policy agenda (because there were no more recent ones).Militarism was a weird aberration that people were happy to leave behind, especially after it got the shit bombed out of them, not some kind of trve Japanese spirit.
>>18454439>why did actual soldiers laugh at a literal faggot poet who turned up in a clown costume and started schizodumping at them?
>>18454439>Why did the Japanese abandon their centuries-old martial culture so quickly after WW2?They lost a war.>Why did the soldiers heckle and laugh at MishimaBecause he was a LARPer who had sex with men.
>>18454439Mind 90% of the population were excluded from that tradition for centuries, with Imperial Education lasting for less than 50 years.
>>18454439>muh samurai codethat was already getting stale by the late 1800sthe war was a totally modern militaristic one, the old martial culture was grafted onto it for morale and propagandaso most Japanese even throughout the war and almost all afterwards were, rightly so, sick of elitist chauvinists larping as samurai i'm sure when mishima made his impassioned shitpost all those guys thought ya>what year does this dumb faggot think it is?i bet someone yelled >KSY
>>18454439Is there any particular reason he didn't wear a belt with this jacket? The loop for it is there and the gap where it should go is gaping (lol) open because of it.
>>18454439You DO realize that he likely never really expected them to follow him, do you?
>>18455140Probably because he was going to commit suicide just a few moments later and wanted easy access to his stomach.
