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The Zen of Hitler Jugend

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Brian Victoria
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The Tripartite Pact linking Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and Imperial Japan was signed in Berlin on September 27, 1940. Less than two months after the pact was signed, a six-member delegation of Hitler Jugend (Hitler Youth) arrived in Japan. This was actually the second Hitler Jugend delegation to visit Japan, a much larger delegation having first visited in the fall of 1938. In honor of the first delegation's visit, a song was composed entitled Banzai Hitorā Jūgento (Long Live Hitler Youth!). A recording of this song together with photographs highlighting the activities of both the first and second delegations in Japan is embedded below.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , January 2016 , e2
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1 Quoted in Daihonzan Eiheiji: Sansho, August 5, 1941, p. 279.

2 Adolf Hitler, Chapter Five, Mein Kampf. English translation (accessed 28 November 2015).

3 Ibid.

4 For further information on the alleged relationship between Hitler and the historical Buddha, see Victoria, “Japanese Buddhism in the Third Reich,” Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies, Vol. 7. Available on the Web (by subscription only).

5 Sekiryū Buntō. 国民指導力 (The Power to Lead the Nation's Citizens). Daihonzan Eiheiji: Sansho, December 9, 1940, p. 862.

6 Quoted in Niino Kazunobu, Kodo Bukkyo to Tairiku Fukyo. Tokyo: Shakai Hyoron-sha, 2014, pp. 110-111.

7 The Three Principles of the People consist of: 1) nationalism, 2) democracy, and 3) socialism. Sawaki's words are contained in: Sawaki Kodo. Kannon-kyo Teisho (Lectures on the Kannon Sutra). Tokyo, Toko-sha, November 1944, pp. 153-54. Original Japanese text reads: 誠にこの 度の戦争は皇道を世界中に拡げる事である。皇道すなわち仏道を、弘めねばならない。皇道によっ て、三民主義・民主主義・自由主義を破らねばならぬ。これが我々日本国民なのである。