I feel like this is something that people who both do and don't like the Japanese would choose to believe. Americans would want to uphold this image as a way of glazing the japs and making them feel like they are a respected former enemy. Butthurt changs might choose to believe it because they want to dehumanize their enemies.

But I find it hard to believe that some young guy plucked off of some rice field in rural Japan would be so ready to die violently. Especially when most Japanese probably didn't even know what the emperor looked like outside of grainy photographs. So am I wrong to assume that these guys were probably scared shitless and terrorized by their commanders into following reckless orders?

>>17810314 (OP)
I don't think you quite understand just how serious the average Japanese soldier was about defending their Emperor. Honorable suicide was a huge aspect of Japanese culture even prior to World War 2. Soldiers like Hiroo Onoda remained stationed and ready to fight 30 years after the war ended because he refused to accept defeat until his superior officer came to dismiss him of his duty. It all sounds alien to modern sensibilities but that's just how the Japanese were

>>17810314 (OP)
Jap civilians used to kill trafficked colony slaves and outsiders if a natural disaster happened out of superstition. It's not really far off soldiers would mindless believe in the mandate of a god emperor. There's plenty of books written in the perspective of ww2 IJA vets often laced with the same bitterness and crude behaviour.

>>17810321
Why did no nazis do this?

>>17810437
Very different war doctrine. The Japanese were Imperialists, the Germans were Fascists, their war doctrine was less about dying for ze Furher and more about leveraging industry and mechanized warfare to acheive superiority on the theatre of battle but when it became clear America had the industrial advantage most Germans became disillusioned

As in any war, some were, some weren't
the Japanese government certainly tried to promote the idea of the zealous and self-sacrificing soldier, and some people indeed were like that, but it wasn't the whole army. Plenty of people hated it, plenty of people surrendered or deserted.

>>17810437
Germans were formerly Christianized and were less susceptible to a random guy saying that he was literally a god, whereas the Japanese emperor had a history of claiming literal divine descent. It wasn't until after the war that the emperor publicly renounced his divinity, although some Japanese still worship him as a god because they are delusional or they don't know that the emperor ever renounced it. The Japanese government probably avoids the subject due to the embarrassment of some random guy lying and manipulating the entire population of the country.

>>17810314 (OP)
Japanese people until to this day are very superstitious.

It’s always 20% are fanatical zealous NPC retards that have to set the narrative of the rest of wojaks

>>17810314 (OP)
The world back then, and the people in it, and their ideas, morals and thought processes were completely different from today. Unless you were actually around then, it's just impossible to comprehend how radically different everything was, and is now.

Bugman 1.0 vs Buggoman 2.0

Hello my Chinese friends and bot spammers from /int/. America will not rush to save you zhang and Ping Pong from Tenno Heika Banzai Japanese SS Suicide Squadrons and robots, since they will be embroiled in the middle of a Civil War after the assassination of Donald Drumpf. You will all die and perish at the hands of Suzuki, Tanaka and Takeshi and Nanking will finally be finished since MacArthur will not protect you Chinese dogs