Historian Paul Johnson holds that “to fortify themselves in a stern, competitive world ” dominated by European standards of behavior, they found it necessary to invent“ a state religion and a ruling morality, known as Shinto and bushido [the “way of the warrior ”]....
उदाहरणार्थ, जापान का शिन्तो धर्म दूसरे विश्‍व युद्ध में जापानी सेना द्वारा प्रदर्शित धर्मान्ध और परपीड़क मनोवृत्ति के लिए कुछ अंश तक उत्तरदायी ठहरता है ।