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This article covers all of that, and explains why they went nutso-loyal to their superior: because that's what their religion basically taught. Basically (and I'm stating this much worse and with less rigor than the article), zen buddhism + Taoism, through it's silent teaching and 'not-doing'...

https://friesian.com/divebomb.htm (Note, not by me.) TL;DR: Zen teaches one to become a tool, but doesn't actually consider what one might do as such a tool, and some tools are designed for violence. So Zen cannot convey morality, and Japan, which built its culture on Zen, was fatally flawed...