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Originally Posted by Torplexed
Bushido originally prescribed correct and honorable behavior towards one's enemies as a manifestation of one's own honor. Under the Japan military regime that developed in the 1920s and 1930s it was warped and twisted into something that the samurai wouldn't even have recognized. Surrender had not been considered shameful in Japan's previous wars, nor in the civil wars that shaped the Empire's earlier history. Slowly after World War One it was presented as an unthinkable social and military disgrace. Japan's position as the lone major Asian power outnumbered in a world of white colonial nations perceived as trying to keep Japan down as the low man on the totem pole probably contributed to it.
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I must confess I had a slight niggling at the back of my mind as I typed that that it was incorrect and thank you for correcting me.
