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Originally Posted by Ducimus
The japanese on the otherhand, had a totally different mentality, living under the code of bushido. Surrender to a japanese was the most dishonrable thing. To surrender was to be less then human. It's not like they didnt apply a second standard to those they captured either. A japanese soldier or sailor could be expected to fight to the bitter end. They were tough, mean son's of b*tch's.
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And yet, at the end of the war, most of the Jap prison guards (who had behaved with utter brutality to their prisoners) surrendered rather than take their own lives.
They didn't live by Bushido.