BUDDY
User of Aspercreme
One needs only to review the history of the invasion of Okinawa to see that the Japanese people were taught that it was better to die by suicide, than to surrender. At the time, there was a lot of propaganda ebing thrown to the people telling them that if they surrended tot he American they would be tortured and murdered, so fight and die because you will have more honor that way. I think one look at the event on Okinawa, the mothers jumping off cliffs with their children in their arms, the soldiers running undaunted towards American positions holding hand grenades, and the rest, would make the decision pretty clear. As horrible as the act was, in the end I believe that it saved lives.