I would suggest studying Japanese culture during that entire era. They were really just as much of an insane death cult as Hamas is, and a vastly more dangerous one since that death cult had embedded itself in a sovereign nation for generations to indoctrinate the mainstream/majority of the population as true believers in its ideology, and controlled one of the most powerful global military forces in the world of the day.
The price paid to to "de-radicalize" Japan was total war that ended with nuking them twice, collaborating with their surviving leadership to cover up a significant chunk of their war crimes as the price for future cooperation, occupying them for the better part of an entire generation, and propping up their entire economy at our expense for the entire occupation period and then some. And the result is a country that is still pretty fucked up in a lot of ways that just aren't talked about, like the way Japan is horrifically pro-pedophilia.
(No, that is not an exaggeration. Japan has been the world's primary source of child pornography and child trafficking for the entire period of the modern global economy and will remain so for the foreseeable future, since their government is at best only taking superficial action to curb said trade. Japan didn't actually ban the distribution of child pornography until 1999, didn't ban possession of child pornography until 2014, and didn't ban pedophilic sex with children until last year. )
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