Talk politics.

Buddhism being innately pacifist would have surprised the Hell out of Oda Nobunaga, who might wonder why if it was he burned down a monastery to avoid the time of besieging it given how formidable the warrior monks in question were. Westerners think it's pacifist because it's an obscure Dharmic tradition and they don't bother to look at the actual histories of the countries in question very much.

Imperial Japan was just as addicted to warlike Buddhism as Sengoku era Japan was.