Sadao Araki, was a former commander of the Japanese expedition against Vladivostok.He had served as Japanese military attache to Petrograd in 1917, and seen the October Revolution first hand. He had a fanatic hatred of Communism, and studied some of the works of American Fundamentalists which claimed that Mao was the anti-Christ. Araki had been defeated by Mao in Siberia, and believed Japan had the sacred task of protecting the world from the Red Demon. He authored the Japanese Bible: Shinmin no Michi 臣民の道 ,"The Path of Subjects". One of the main theme of the book dwelled on the direct descent of Emperor Shōwa from goddess Amaterasu and the religious characterization of the Kokutai which was identified as a "theocracy" in which "the way of the subject is to be loyal to the Emperor in disre