militarist

Example Sentences

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State media likened Takaichi to the Japanese militarists who led the country into World War II.

From The Wall Street Journal

History shows that men who decide for war, as the Japanese militarists did, cannot demand mercy for themselves.

From New York Times

Critics in Japan see Yasukuni as a symbol of a militarist past and say leaders’ visits violate the separation of religion and state mandated by the post-war constitution.

From Reuters

Nuland and the neocons, however, remain committed to an ever-more debilitating and dangerous Cold War with Russia and China to justify a militarist foreign policy and record Pentagon budgets.

From Salon

Many Japanese, especially academics, are wary of abuse of power given the country’s history of militarist repression before and during World War II and anti-communist campaigns after the war.

From Washington Times