honourable Japanese

[Mike K]

Some of the Japanese atrocities were meant to terrorize the local populace into submission . In places like KL in then Malaya the Japanese authorities would round up a few innocent individuals and chop their heads off, the heads were stuck on poles and displayed at busy road intersections . The message to the locals being "if you want to misbehave, this is what happens "

[Marc Montgomery]

difference of cultures.. We realize that when you simply cannot win at all, surrender is preferable to a wasted death.. They- and others- believe that surrender is worse than death and that if you surrender you are of less value than pond scum.
Also I hate to say it, but racism is absolutely rampant, even other asians, Chinese, koreans vietnamese.are lower forms. (mind you, during WWII, we tended to portray Japanes as weak, poor eyesight, etc )

We see some of that thinking today.. We value life above all, but we see too many examples of other cultures where killing yourself- suicide bombers- is honourable and desirable
I remember an interview with the mother of a suicide bomber a few years ago.. she said she wished she had more sons so they could be suicide bombers too...
wow..what can you say to such thinking?? simply beyond our (my) comprehension.