It's not something special to Shinto. Similar programs have been proposed and developed (if not actually carried out) in many other ideological contexts. The

It's not something special to Shinto. Similar programs have been proposed and developed (if not actually carried out) in many other ideological contexts. The Chinese used suicide tactics against the Japanese, as did the South Koreans against North Korean tanks. America built a man-portable nuclear bomb and although it came with a timer, the soldiers who were trained to deploy it believed this would be a suicide mission.