 Unfortunately, Inoue’s claim that there had been traditional forms of philosophy, specifically the Neo-Confucian schools of the early-modern period, well prior to the introduction of western philosophy had one disturbing side effect. He increasingly elevated the status of Confucian notions not necessarily as Confucian notions in themselves, but as integral parts of a nationalistic, imperialistic, and militaristic blend serving the interests of Japanese militarists of the 1930s and 1940s. In particular, Inoue’s later years were devoted to expounding bushidō, the so-called “way of the warrior,” as a core ingredient in kokumin dōtoku. Inoue produced such a large corpus of bushidō-related literature that one might claim that the way of the warrior was far more his invention than something grounded in tradition.