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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

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