By 1941, when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and thus entered World War II, “Shinto... was transformed from a primitive, obsolescent and minority cult into an endorsement of a modern, totalitarian state, and so by a peculiarly odious irony, religion, which should have served to resist the secular horrors of the age, was used to sanctify them. ”
१९४१ में जब जापान ने पर्ल हार्बर पर बम गिराया और इस तरह दूसरा विश्‍व युद्ध में प्रवेश किया, “शिन्तो...