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Here <https://www.fnn.jp/articles/286014>

was the sentence

亡【な】くなられた[9人]【きゅうにん】は、戦争【せんそう】の士気【しき】を高【たか】めるうえで「軍神」になったんです

_The nine men who died became "war heroes" in raising the morale of the war
effort._

I found this dictionary entry

軍神 【ぐんしん; いくさがみ; ぐんじん[ok]】 (n) (1) god of war; (n) (2) war hero

How are the different readings of 軍神 used?
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Is the reading 軍神 【ぐんしん】, 軍神 【いくさがみ】, or 軍神 【ぐんじん】?
In modern Japanese, it's read ぐんしん most of the time.

Between ぐんしん and ぐんじん, ぐんじん may be an old variation or even a more standard
way to read it a while ago, but it's mostly replaced by ぐんしん now. It doesn't
help that 軍人 is also read ぐんじん.

It looks like the term means "legendary war hero [who was human before dying]"
and "deity of war [who is always immortal]". I feel like in the latter sense
it's more likely to be いくさがみ.

<http://doi.org/10.15024/00002106> gives a summary on the old usage of
"ikusagami". (I don't know if the author intentionally avoided using "gunshin"
and "gunjin", though.)

The 9 individuals mentioned were named 九軍神 and there might be a customary way
to read it as a proper noun. I don't know if it's きゅうぐんしん or きゅうぐんじん, but I'm
pretty sure it's not きゅういくさがみ.
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