No need to get intellectual about the this. Those people are crazy. There was no turning them around to see the light. Island countries are like that. They saw the outside world as barbarian-think China and what they did there.
A negotiated end to hostilities might have saved face but it would only be a no-fault lull in the fighting before starting up again.
Crazy. What does a westerner think if told to fly their plane into the side of an enemy’s warship? We’re the barbarians? Just look at how they treated POW’s or even shipwrecked sailors before Commodore Perry arrived.
The Japanese have a real sense of duty and it exists in the mindset today.
You are right of course, my main point is what the revisionist bastards who run the schools are teaching US Kids.