The good part of japanese soldiers haved an SAMURAI-like spirit builded in their minds, and you know what is samurais thinking about the enemy, surender and war prisoners. All japs. soldiers( including those WW2 samurais and all other...meaning on thos who did not know what a fu..k they doing there) are trained with high wildnes, fanaticsm (for the Emperor), unhumain torture of their officers(during training and service) and contempt against death. So that it is not very odd when they act very wildly to their POWīs when they did not showing no more remorse to their own people. Normaly that this way of behaveior was reflected to US soldiers and later lead to mutual heatred.
Japanese officers(normaly not all of them but good part did practice this) did not speaking with their lower ranks/soldiers becaus this was below their honor.
I read Saburo Sakaiīs book "Samurai" (fantastic autobiography and i recommend you all to read this, for those who did not know Sakai is jap. WW2 air ace) and he was write in his book nice examples about those odd behavior of their officers.
NORMALY at the end, did not every jap. and amer. soldier a war criminal but 10 lunatics is enough to fu..k up entire brigades honor and respect, so you canīt blaim every japanese or american for some war crimes and you canīt put them all in same pocket like they were all cold blooded kilers.
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