However, in the modern times, the new Meiji Government performed a re-separation of Buddhism and Shinto, and the Shinto religion which was treated as State Shinto was merged with militarism, and became a means of hegemonism.
しかし、近代になって明治新政府によって再神仏分離され、神道は国家神道とされて軍国主義と一体となり覇権主義の手段ともなった。