Maybe it's just his lunch.
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Maybe it's just his lunch.
:rofl: :super:
There was a documentary on this incident some years back. The thing about it that stands out most in my memory was a elderly japanese veteran who'd been a military surgeon recounting how thousands of Japanese soldiers had been so horrified by their own actions and what they had witnessed that they went into a sort of withdrawal and starved themselves to death rather than live with the shame. That was kept a closely guarded secret at the time, the families of the suicides were told they had died in battle.
A US officer present at a prewar parade gound told of a Jap officer beheading a soldier who'd missed a button on his tunic. They didn't miss a beat, the jap soldier just stepped forwards and bowed, and the officer took off his head without a blink.
A couple of month back I saw a Japanese film about the hardships of their soldiers in the last months of the war.
The main character was pretty sympathetic until he killed two elderly civilians over a smal bag of salt. Earlier he had killed a dog and showed remorse, he showed no remorse at all when he killed the old couple.