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It always had some death cult aspects to improve military discipline, but the WWII version applied it to everyone rather than just the Bushi class.

Basically a generational change in leadership. The people who remembered why the "Good old days" of feudalism were bad aged out of command, and people brought up on propaganda romanticizing feudal japan took over. The Bushido of WWII was not the Bushido of feudal japan, but the Bushido of...

The Japanese at that point were one or two generations out of feudalism. Prior to the Meiji restoration Japan was a late feudal society with age of sail technology. They were at exactly the same level of social and technological development as Columbus in the indies. In order to modernize, the...

The Japanese Emperor was and is very much a religious figure. He is basically the pope of Shinto. It would have been a bad idea to execute the Japanese Emperor for supporting the Japanese Empire for the same reason it would be a bad idea to execute the Pope for supporting Mussolini.