In 1970, while in the military, I was walking in a small park on the edge of Manilla. There was a plaque. Can’t remember the exact words but it was signed by the survivors of the Bataan Death March who praised those Japanese solders who, at a risk to their own lives, shared their rations and water with the prisoners
Thanks for sharing, CharlesW ...The Japanese guards who broke the rules and did share food exhibited great courage. In the Imperial Japanese Army there were no slaps on the wrist. Any insubordination such as showing kindness to the POWs was dealt with harshly. I was in a band and we played at an orphanage reunion around Statesville, NC back in ca 2012. After our set, one of the graduates slowly approached our Merchandise table with a small entourage surrounding him. He picked up a CD and was getting ready to pay for it when one of his buddies said "he survived the Bataan Death March. I was totally in awe ... It really was special to meet this man for me after having read about ww 2 history since childhood... and even talked with ww2 veterans from several nations. After learning that, he was a Bataan veteran I addressed him and said "Sir, your money is no good here - I have read about the hell you went through".
I remember reading a book about American POW's in a Japanese prison camp (not sure if they were marched there from the Bataan Death March). One of the survivors told the story about how one night a Japanese guard went to him and gave him a cup of hot chocolate, the POW was very moved and said he would never forget him.
Well there are always going to be good Samaritans on all sides Angels even, along with its fair share of demons. Prior to the Japanese look what the West did to China and the American military (not civilians) did in the Philippines massacring a whole Town of its Male populace both young and old. (Google it.)
What a way of seeing things. The well-being of our child is of paramount importance to both my wife and myself. I really can't imagine being disappointed at learning that they had survived a horrible war. I can imagine a lot of things that I have never experienced (like being under artillery fire, or seeing friends killed) things way beyond my actual experience, and I know I would be terrified, horrified, saddened and traumatized by these things, but I cannot imagine being disappointed that my child didn't die in a war my country lost. On the contrary, it would be one of the sole positive things to cling to in such a situation. I'm glad the grandfather came around.
A Japanese youtuber (channel is Watch Shogo) who lived in America during his teens and is fluent in English with exposure to both cultures, currently living in Kyoto and focused on preserving traditional Japanese culture put it this way, that because Japan is an island nation which experiences many natural disasters (hurricanes, volcanoes, earthquakes, and of course tsunamis) the importance of being group-minded is more prominent than in mainland (or anywhere not as naturally dangerous) societies. In emergency situations if everyone put themselves first you're likely to have a worse outcome than a combined and concerted effort. Naturally the towns and people that tended toward the group-first mentality survived disasters better, and so became the dominant social group. This leads to the wider society needing to detect and ostracize those who aren't group-minded, so as to keep the group from being vulnerable to me-first mentality in the event of disaster. This leads to all kinds of knock-on effects we can see through the change of what makes a person "good". A good person does not make changes that disrupt the current order because it could bring chaos. They do not differ from the group simply because they think differently, they understand many minds are better than one. Basically, a "good" person understands their ineptitude and the groups supreme position over the self because the division of self from group is "evil" itself. To think one is special, and above the group must entail that the group is lesser than them, and if they are lesser, they deserve less. Its dehumanizing to all others to fancy oneself a better human, in any way. If you are indeed better in some way it comes from without, not from within. What right then, did this soldier have to not die a death that many of his comrades suffered for the group, or POWs who suffered even worse shame that would have traded places with him; what right did he have to put himself above all that? So after all in the avoidance of dehumanization of others, the group-first mentality dehumanizes the self. The self is evil because it was weak and afraid and therefore could not put the group first. Military groups in general employ this morality, the unit is superior to the individual. Japanese civilian society mirrored its military society during the war, so the same rules applied even when you were with friends and family. Western civilian society is individualistic in stark contrast (you should only do what YOU want to do) and I think its part of why so many veterans have a hard time adapting back, and why not everyone is mentally prepared to serve. Bootcamp is Bushido. From this perspective (that I'm not advocating for) you putting your child above everything is villainous behavior, for what would you do if 2 people kidnapped them and you couldn't get outside help? Could you snuff out 2 lives for 1? That's capital W wrong. This seems absurd but when you're a Diamyo and your son gets kidnapped its a serious consideration to make, and Diamyos that chose their son over their men's lives wouldn't be Diamyos for very long. A samurai that chose to run off and go get back some kidnapped loved one wouldn't be alive for very long. If the whole cultural system is working well though, the men will clamor to save the Diamyo's son simply because he is who is, and love towards him is "good". Even today, if a captain of squad is captured, you'd be hard-pressed to find a member of his unit unwilling to try to rescue him, especially if he feels the rest of the group wants to. This is by design. Hope you can see that the grandfather "coming around" wasn't a monster returning to decency, it was the zeitgeist around him that changed (occupation and restructuring of Japan) and allowed his "selfish" feelings of love for his son shine through, overcoming the shame he was taught. Shame may overcome his and all our "selfish" feelings again, should the wind blow the right way.
Pat, in State Shinto (now outlawed), your ancestors are with you right now, watching you, judging you, even whispering in your ear. You will join them in the afterlife and hopefully, if you've acted honorably, you all get an upgrade to a better afterlife. Act dishonorably, and y'all get a downgrade-not just you, but the whole deceased clan. Everyone is shoveling pig poop for eternity because you let the team down. Emperor Meji said "Death is as light as a feather. Duty is as heavy as lead." Japanese parents missed their children for today, but were convinced they would be reunited in a world more pleasant than this one but otherwise very much like this one. So Death is an interlude, but not permanent loss. So the father was upset that his son let the family down and dishonored the dead but still hanging around family and this would cause lots of problems in the afterlife, including the yearly ceremony where the Emperor invites everyone from the family dead or alive, kneels before them and thanks them for their services to the Empire. To Japanese, the ultimate proof of the correctness of State Shinto was the emperor. He was a real god transformed into a man, and lived in Tokyo with a postal address. Christians worshiped a poor carpenter who was executed as a criminal, came back to life and then left, leaving no forwarding address, and remains unseen for 2000 years. Now, who are the delusional ones?
@@scottwatts3879 Yeah but the Emperor was without any real power. The irony is that this living God was very early in japanese history reduced to a mere puppet without real power. He had all the noble blood, which was actually divine, as you rightly pointed out, but nobody listened to him. The country was ruled by hard fisted warriors, which fought over who would ascend to the "throne" of military supreme Leader. That is in a nutshell, what happened to the Japanese. The minute the Japanese got rid of the Shogun, the old title for military leader, they suddenly had a military dictatorship that resembled eerily the Shogunate, but without the deep rooted zen buddhist shinto tradition, that made it bearable. Instead the Japanese got baldy mass murderer Hideki Tojo, who shat on every sensible interpretation of bushido and pissed away every hint of humanity, even towards his own people, which he and his cronies deeply hated and despised.
The brutality of the Japanese military can never be understated and the denial or minimisation of it by successive Japanese leaders is shameful. However, we should be mindful too that brutality and cruelty know no national boundaries and are not the preserve of one people. We must never be so ignorant of our own histories to point the finger at others and declare from some revisionist moral height, “it was them”.
The officer's father's initial unhappy reaction upon learning his son was still alive may seem really odd to us now, but that was the prevailing mentality of the overall Japanese public during the war: dying for your country (or really, the Emperor) means you *really" served, and a family could be extra proud of a son who sacrificed his life for the Emperor. If you want to see an example of this mentality in film, check out the 1958 film "Conflagration," by Kon Ichikawa. A large part of it is set during WW2 Japan. There is a brief scene of little school kids, many of whom are wearing headbands that say "Serve and Die." So, even young children were indoctrinated into this mindset. Note how the Japanese apparently had little trouble rounding up volunteers eager to become Kamikaze pilots etc.
And what do you say to the son whose father was a POW in Japan for 3.5 years. I had no father as he was physically and mentally destroyed as a result. As a consequence my childhood was far from roses and his experience has negatively affected me all my life. I have tried to understand them but I remain unconvinced that, if the chips were down, they wouldn’t return to their brutal, inhumane selves. I understand why the soft approach after the war but it hurts
Japanese culture is such that they think they did nothing wrong in WW2. Apparently having one Shinto Priest at a shrine on a mountain somewhere makes up for the massacre of 100's of thousands of Chinese civilians and the rape of Nanking. They don't teach it in their schools. The victim mentality demonstrated by the Atomic bomb museums is hard to stomach.
@@Pavia1525 You are a moron! Most men did not surrender of their own free will - they were ordered to. And do you realize the kind of treatment prisoners received under Japanese internment? Clearly, you do not. When finally freed, most "prisoners" slaughtered their guards. If they could find them.........
The Japanese military were treated far too leniently after their defeat, due to the political requirements of the post war need to halt communist influence in the region. Their inhumane treatment of innocent noncombatant civilians and military prisoners of war is infamous for the mass cruelty inflicted and should have been ingrained in Japanese history, instead of which we see politicians and the educational system in Japan actively denying and erasing it in their national discourse today - this is a disgraceful tragedy and stains the memory of those inocents who suffered and died.
Agree. Also, as someone who has lived in Japan for a long time, many of the traits/actions you mentioned still occur at a minor level in the work place and throughout the education system. Many examples occur today with likely links to behaviors developed during the peak of the imperial expansion days...
Really? You expect that putting five, ten, or twenty thousand Japanese soldiers would have improved something? Study the parallels between Germany and Japan (both WW2 and post-WW2), the war criminal trials and sentencings as well as their outcomes, and then go study Japan. Sorry dude, you display a profound ignorance as well as absence of devoted study. I suggest that you both travel more and when you take time to actually read, read original source materials from actual historians, not novelists. Skip the videos.
This cast some light on the Cowra escape by Japanese POW's. At the time it was considered a mass suicide as escaping by running toward a machine gun is not a very good plan and the Japanese Army would tell families of captured soldiers that their son's had been killed so learning they were alive was more pain as they were then considered cowards. But after the escape the Japanese made no more escape attempts and were well behaved. Almost as if after having attempted suicide once and failing they were not going to try again.
It was unique? It was barbarian. How many G.I.'s, Marines, Allies died because of their noble fucking cause. Explain that to me. Fucking unique. Unbelievable.
The "culture" in question was a bastardisation of classical Japanese history. Admiral Yamamoto knew it, and was almost assassinated more than once for his views by crazed fanatics.
LT. Goldberg, "Manny Goldberg" is a story in itself. He was my Fathers cousin. I was just browsing TH-cam when I found this by chance. My dad's cousin was an amazing man who overcame tremendous obstacles to live and serve his country.
Human beings are complex. Some Americans can exhibit incredible kindness and compassion one day ...and then behave like a vicious and pitiless brute the next day....! Michael J Fox's movie Casualties of War (1989) shows this out quite clearly.
Because he wasnt operating in a combat zone for that reason. They didnt use Japanese Americans fighting the Japs. Sounds like he was an interpreter for an intelligence outfit.
I GREW UP IN BALDWIN HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD OF LOS ANGELES(70% AFRO AMERICAN 20%ASIAN AMERICAN HALF JAPANESE HALF CHINESE) THE 442REGT COMBAT TEAM ASSOCIATION WOULD HAVE BOWLING LEAGUES AT THE HOLIDAY BOWL ON CRENSHAW BLVD WHEN I WAS A BOY😊
It shows how much difference is the mindset of someone deeply indoctrinated and someone who is overcome with genuine human emotion. The father was disappointed in a son that didn't die for the emperor but the mother was happy to know her son lives. In Israel, when we saw interviews woth Palestinian mothers who wished only martyrdom for her children - some of us (myself included) had trouble to believe that that majority thinks like that and how pervasive is this culture. But after the October 23 massacre I've come to terms that this is the reality. I do have some sliver of hope, that if Japan could have changed than maybe our enemies can too, one day. Even though the code of Bushido still hunts modern Japan, it didn't prevent her from becoming a great democracy.
It's called the code of the Samurai otherwise I call it the code of the Warrior otherwise known as code of bulshit they believed in dying was an honor yeah right tell this to the new generation am I a girl or am I a boy😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Even that code was idealized fakery. Never surrender to the enemy? That's funny because they are numerous instances in Japanese history of opposing forces doing just that and then fighting for the daimyo/lord that defeated them. Killing yourself because your lord lost/died wasn't necessarily the norm either. Some might do that, but many did not. Plenty of thing the Imperial army twisted for its own purposes.
Sorry, what did I just hear? After you tried to off yourself, you cannot do it again? If the reasons for the self-offing are REAL, then you do it ten times. Only if they are BS do you stop.
Even some of those Japanese officers,were Christian,and inclined to be not to brainwashed by the code of the Bushido.Thus understanbly inclined to surrender.
In 1970, while in the military, I was walking in a small park on the edge of Manilla. There was a plaque. Can’t remember the exact words but it was signed by the survivors of the Bataan Death March who praised those Japanese solders who, at a risk to their own lives, shared their rations and water with the prisoners
Thanks for sharing, CharlesW ...The Japanese guards who broke the rules and did share food exhibited great courage. In the Imperial Japanese Army there were no slaps on the wrist. Any insubordination such as showing kindness to the POWs was dealt with harshly.
I was in a band and we played at an orphanage reunion around Statesville, NC back in ca 2012. After our set, one of the graduates slowly approached our Merchandise table with a small entourage surrounding him. He picked up a CD and was getting ready to pay for it when one of his buddies said "he survived the Bataan Death March. I was totally in awe ... It really was special to meet this man for me after having read about ww 2 history since childhood... and even talked with ww2 veterans from several nations. After learning that, he was a Bataan veteran I addressed him and said "Sir, your money is no good here - I have read about the hell you went through".
I remember reading a book about American POW's in a Japanese prison camp (not sure if they were marched there from the Bataan Death March). One of the survivors told the story about how one night a Japanese guard went to him and gave him a cup of hot chocolate, the POW was very moved and said he would never forget him.
Well there are always going to be good Samaritans on all sides Angels even, along with its fair share of demons. Prior to the Japanese look what the West did to China and the American military (not civilians) did in the Philippines massacring a whole Town of its Male populace both young and old. (Google it.)
What a way of seeing things. The well-being of our child is of paramount importance to both my wife and myself. I really can't imagine being disappointed at learning that they had survived a horrible war. I can imagine a lot of things that I have never experienced (like being under artillery fire, or seeing friends killed) things way beyond my actual experience, and I know I would be terrified, horrified, saddened and traumatized by these things, but I cannot imagine being disappointed that my child didn't die in a war my country lost.
On the contrary, it would be one of the sole positive things to cling to in such a situation. I'm glad the grandfather came around.
The chrysanthemum and the sword - the two sides of Japan. "Being young" - he could've added "being American." You're a true hero sir!
Hero
A Japanese youtuber (channel is Watch Shogo) who lived in America during his teens and is fluent in English with exposure to both cultures, currently living in Kyoto and focused on preserving traditional Japanese culture put it this way, that because Japan is an island nation which experiences many natural disasters (hurricanes, volcanoes, earthquakes, and of course tsunamis) the importance of being group-minded is more prominent than in mainland (or anywhere not as naturally dangerous) societies. In emergency situations if everyone put themselves first you're likely to have a worse outcome than a combined and concerted effort. Naturally the towns and people that tended toward the group-first mentality survived disasters better, and so became the dominant social group. This leads to the wider society needing to detect and ostracize those who aren't group-minded, so as to keep the group from being vulnerable to me-first mentality in the event of disaster.
This leads to all kinds of knock-on effects we can see through the change of what makes a person "good". A good person does not make changes that disrupt the current order because it could bring chaos. They do not differ from the group simply because they think differently, they understand many minds are better than one. Basically, a "good" person understands their ineptitude and the groups supreme position over the self because the division of self from group is "evil" itself. To think one is special, and above the group must entail that the group is lesser than them, and if they are lesser, they deserve less. Its dehumanizing to all others to fancy oneself a better human, in any way. If you are indeed better in some way it comes from without, not from within.
What right then, did this soldier have to not die a death that many of his comrades suffered for the group, or POWs who suffered even worse shame that would have traded places with him; what right did he have to put himself above all that? So after all in the avoidance of dehumanization of others, the group-first mentality dehumanizes the self. The self is evil because it was weak and afraid and therefore could not put the group first. Military groups in general employ this morality, the unit is superior to the individual. Japanese civilian society mirrored its military society during the war, so the same rules applied even when you were with friends and family. Western civilian society is individualistic in stark contrast (you should only do what YOU want to do) and I think its part of why so many veterans have a hard time adapting back, and why not everyone is mentally prepared to serve. Bootcamp is Bushido.
From this perspective (that I'm not advocating for) you putting your child above everything is villainous behavior, for what would you do if 2 people kidnapped them and you couldn't get outside help? Could you snuff out 2 lives for 1? That's capital W wrong. This seems absurd but when you're a Diamyo and your son gets kidnapped its a serious consideration to make, and Diamyos that chose their son over their men's lives wouldn't be Diamyos for very long. A samurai that chose to run off and go get back some kidnapped loved one wouldn't be alive for very long. If the whole cultural system is working well though, the men will clamor to save the Diamyo's son simply because he is who is, and love towards him is "good". Even today, if a captain of squad is captured, you'd be hard-pressed to find a member of his unit unwilling to try to rescue him, especially if he feels the rest of the group wants to. This is by design.
Hope you can see that the grandfather "coming around" wasn't a monster returning to decency, it was the zeitgeist around him that changed (occupation and restructuring of Japan) and allowed his "selfish" feelings of love for his son shine through, overcoming the shame he was taught. Shame may overcome his and all our "selfish" feelings again, should the wind blow the right way.
Pat, in State Shinto (now outlawed), your ancestors are with you right now, watching you, judging you, even whispering in your ear. You will join them in the afterlife and hopefully, if you've acted honorably, you all get an upgrade to a better afterlife. Act dishonorably, and y'all get a downgrade-not just you, but the whole deceased clan. Everyone is shoveling pig poop for eternity because you let the team down.
Emperor Meji said "Death is as light as a feather. Duty is as heavy as lead."
Japanese parents missed their children for today, but were convinced they would be reunited in a world more pleasant than this one but otherwise very much like this one. So Death is an interlude, but not permanent loss. So the father was upset that his son let the family down and dishonored the dead but still hanging around family and this would cause lots of problems in the afterlife, including the yearly ceremony where the Emperor invites everyone from the family dead or alive, kneels before them and thanks them for their services to the Empire.
To Japanese, the ultimate proof of the correctness of State Shinto was the emperor. He was a real god transformed into a man, and lived in Tokyo with a postal address.
Christians worshiped a poor carpenter who was executed as a criminal, came back to life and then left, leaving no forwarding address, and remains unseen for 2000 years.
Now, who are the delusional ones?
@@scottwatts3879 Yeah but the Emperor was without any real power. The irony is that this living God was very early in japanese history reduced to a mere puppet without real power. He had all the noble blood, which was actually divine, as you rightly pointed out, but nobody listened to him. The country was ruled by hard fisted warriors, which fought over who would ascend to the "throne" of military supreme Leader. That is in a nutshell, what happened to the Japanese. The minute the Japanese got rid of the Shogun, the old title for military leader, they suddenly had a military dictatorship that resembled eerily the Shogunate, but without the deep rooted zen buddhist shinto tradition, that made it bearable. Instead the Japanese got baldy mass murderer Hideki Tojo, who shat on every sensible interpretation of bushido and pissed away every hint of humanity, even towards his own people, which he and his cronies deeply hated and despised.
The brutality of the Japanese military can never be understated and the denial or minimisation of it by successive Japanese leaders is shameful. However, we should be mindful too that brutality and cruelty know no national boundaries and are not the preserve of one people. We must never be so ignorant of our own histories to point the finger at others and declare from some revisionist moral height, “it was them”.
Much respect to the allied soldiers who fought the Japanese in WW II. They were very tough men on both sides.
My dad was with the Navy in the Pacific Theater and fought in many battles against the Japanese forces.
The officer's father's initial unhappy reaction upon learning his son was still alive may seem really odd to us now, but that was the prevailing mentality of the overall Japanese public during the war: dying for your country (or really, the Emperor) means you *really" served, and a family could be extra proud of a son who sacrificed his life for the Emperor. If you want to see an example of this mentality in film, check out the 1958 film "Conflagration," by Kon Ichikawa. A large part of it is set during WW2 Japan. There is a brief scene of little school kids, many of whom are wearing headbands that say "Serve and Die." So, even young children were indoctrinated into this mindset. Note how the Japanese apparently had little trouble rounding up volunteers eager to become Kamikaze pilots etc.
And what do you say to the son whose father was a POW in Japan for 3.5 years. I had no father as he was physically and mentally destroyed as a result. As a consequence my childhood was far from roses and his experience has negatively affected me all my life. I have tried to understand them but I remain unconvinced that, if the chips were down, they wouldn’t return to their brutal, inhumane selves. I understand why the soft approach after the war but it hurts
Your father was weak. First he surrendered to the enemy. Then he complained about his treatment after being a prisoner.
@@Pavia1525 Idiot.
Japanese culture is such that they think they did nothing wrong in WW2. Apparently having one Shinto Priest at a shrine on a mountain somewhere makes up for the massacre of 100's of thousands of Chinese civilians and the rape of Nanking. They don't teach it in their schools. The victim mentality demonstrated by the Atomic bomb museums is hard to stomach.
@@Pavia1525 Who the hell are you?
@@Pavia1525 You are a moron! Most men did not surrender of their own free will - they were ordered to. And do you realize the kind of treatment prisoners received under Japanese internment? Clearly, you do not. When finally freed, most "prisoners" slaughtered their guards. If they could find them.........
The Japanese military were treated far too leniently after their defeat, due to the political requirements of the post war need to halt communist influence in the region. Their inhumane treatment of innocent noncombatant civilians and military prisoners of war is infamous for the mass cruelty inflicted and should have been ingrained in Japanese history, instead of which we see politicians and the educational system in Japan actively denying and erasing it in their national discourse today - this is a disgraceful tragedy and stains the memory of those inocents who suffered and died.
Agree. Also, as someone who has lived in Japan for a long time, many of the traits/actions you mentioned still occur at a minor level in the work place and throughout the education system. Many examples occur today with likely links to behaviors developed during the peak of the imperial expansion days...
Really? You expect that putting five, ten, or twenty thousand Japanese soldiers would have improved something?
Study the parallels between Germany and Japan (both WW2 and post-WW2), the war criminal trials and sentencings as well as their outcomes, and then go study Japan.
Sorry dude, you display a profound ignorance as well as absence of devoted study.
I suggest that you both travel more and when you take time to actually read, read original source materials from actual historians, not novelists. Skip the videos.
I agree, Germany had many officers receive short sentences! Some of which killed many thousands of prisoners!
You can thank Unit 731 for turning over biological warfare research to the US in exchange for prosecution of war crimes.
@@JD-tn5lz”Dude?” What, are you 14? smh 🤦♂️
This cast some light on the Cowra escape by Japanese POW's. At the time it was considered a mass suicide as escaping by running toward a machine gun is not a very good plan and the Japanese Army would tell families of captured soldiers that their son's had been killed so learning they were alive was more pain as they were then considered cowards. But after the escape the Japanese made no more escape attempts and were well behaved. Almost as if after having attempted suicide once and failing they were not going to try again.
Yeah, the Japanese cultire at the time was extremely unique. Amercians have no idea...
It was unique? It was barbarian. How many G.I.'s, Marines, Allies died because of their noble fucking cause. Explain that to me. Fucking unique. Unbelievable.
The "culture" in question was a bastardisation of classical Japanese history.
Admiral Yamamoto knew it, and was almost assassinated more than once for his views by crazed fanatics.
LT. Goldberg, "Manny Goldberg" is a story in itself. He was my Fathers cousin. I was just browsing TH-cam when I found this by chance. My dad's cousin was an amazing man who overcame tremendous obstacles to live and serve his country.
Human beings are complex. Some Americans can exhibit incredible kindness and compassion one day ...and then behave like a vicious and pitiless brute the next day....! Michael J Fox's movie Casualties of War (1989) shows this out quite clearly.
How did dude didnt get friendly fire is beyond me
Because he wasnt operating in a combat zone for that reason. They didnt use Japanese Americans fighting the Japs. Sounds like he was an interpreter for an intelligence outfit.
Probably surrounded by white US soldiers and his uniform. Japanese-American combat units were sent to Europe and not the Pacific for a reason.
Because would be wearing a US uniform…
This gentleman’s English is first class, an excellent speaker indeed. Good show.
As a schizophrenic I've tried once. It's much harder when you know what to expect.
I GREW UP IN BALDWIN HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD OF LOS ANGELES(70% AFRO AMERICAN 20%ASIAN AMERICAN HALF JAPANESE HALF CHINESE) THE 442REGT COMBAT TEAM ASSOCIATION WOULD HAVE BOWLING LEAGUES AT THE HOLIDAY BOWL ON CRENSHAW BLVD WHEN I WAS A BOY😊
It shows how much difference is the mindset of someone deeply indoctrinated and someone who is overcome with genuine human emotion. The father was disappointed in a son that didn't die for the emperor but the mother was happy to know her son lives. In Israel, when we saw interviews woth Palestinian mothers who wished only martyrdom for her children - some of us (myself included) had trouble to believe that that majority thinks like that and how pervasive is this culture. But after the October 23 massacre I've come to terms that this is the reality. I do have some
sliver of hope, that if Japan could have changed than maybe our enemies can too, one day. Even though the code of Bushido still hunts modern Japan, it didn't
prevent her from becoming a great democracy.
....wait....was this dude above Iwo or below Iwo?
Don't touch our boats.
It's called the code of the Samurai otherwise I call it the code of the Warrior otherwise known as code of bulshit they believed in dying was an honor yeah right tell this to the new generation am I a girl or am I a boy😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
You sound confused.
Even that code was idealized fakery. Never surrender to the enemy? That's funny because they are numerous instances in Japanese history of opposing forces doing just that and then fighting for the daimyo/lord that defeated them. Killing yourself because your lord lost/died wasn't necessarily the norm either. Some might do that, but many did not. Plenty of thing the Imperial army twisted for its own purposes.
Sorry, what did I just hear? After you tried to off yourself, you cannot do it again? If the reasons for the self-offing are REAL, then you do it ten times. Only if they are BS do you stop.
I think you now understand what he meant. You didnt get that the first time round?
How disgraceful for a Japanese officer to surrender.
It was, yes, to them. Even today.
Even some of those Japanese officers,were Christian,and inclined to be not to brainwashed by the code of the Bushido.Thus understanbly inclined to surrender.