Absolutely not, you're completely backwards. The Samurai Class was the aristocracy, sometimes practicing martial efforts in the same way the Europeans did in the middle ages. The aristocracy used the military as a mechanism for their own social achievement, regardless of whether they ever fought in a single battle or led a single soldier in combat. Militarism requires that society be structured out from the military, and all institutions are governed exclusively by the military, for military purposes.
The samurai became the aristocracy but they started out as rogue militias that had to create a second government to govern the country because the royal family were being too lazy and weren't governing the country and letting criminals go around unchecked. theres a reason why the shogunate (the samurai military government) and the royal family were often competing with each other for political power throughout Japanese history. They were two different entities.
Absolutely not, you're completely backwards. The Samurai Class was the aristocracy, sometimes practicing martial efforts in the same way the Europeans did in the middle ages. The aristocracy used the military as a mechanism for their own social achievement, regardless of whether they ever fought in a single battle or led a single soldier in combat. Militarism requires that society be structured out from the military, and all institutions are governed exclusively by the military, for military purposes.
This, is not a militarist society, it is an aristocracy exploiting the military.
The samurai became the aristocracy but they started out as rogue militias that had to create a second government to govern the country because the royal family were being too lazy and weren't governing the country and letting criminals go around unchecked. theres a reason why the shogunate (the samurai military government) and the royal family were often competing with each other for political power throughout Japanese history. They were two different entities.