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...wind and mountain and sea, Lieut. William K. Bunce, U.S.N.R., wrestled for three months. Then the tall, slight, 38-year-old former dean of Otterbein College (Westerville, Ohio), for three years a teacher in Japan, produced a directive reshaping the relationship of 77,000,000 Japanese to the Shinto faith. Last week, with not even a penciled change by Allied headquarters, Shinto according to Bunce was promulgated in Tokyo...
...Bunce directive skirted dangerously close to violating religious liberty. But it had long been agreed among most students of Japan that Shinto in its modern form was a tool and a disguise for militarism...
Under the directive, State Shinto - part religion, part patriotic ritual - was to be stripped of public support and of its "ultra-nationalistic and militaristic" trappings. Henceforth the bare remnants could exist as part of sectarian Shinto, an un-privileged equal among other faiths, sup ported only by voluntary offerings...
...public funds could be used to sup port Shinto shrines or priests. The Emperor could no longer report on public matters to his ancestors in official visits to the shrines. But he and other officials could worship as private individuals. Shinto doctrine would "be deleted from text books...
...Prince Morimasa Nashimoto, 71, Supreme War Councilor (since 1923), Field Marshal, and Lord Custodian of the Shinto Shrines. Standing in the bomb-charred ruins of his mansion, he told newsmen: "I had nothing whatsoever to do with the war. ... I didn't actively oppose it, but you can imagine how I felt. ... I was only an honorary chairman [of military societies]. . . . Let's see what else I have done." He paused, looked up solemnly, added: "Nothing...