[Bluegrass Conservative]

Took them sixty years to surrender? I can admire that, unlike the French who surrender in 60 seconds! :-)

[Spktyr]

The French usually don't even take that long. Try six seconds.

This is a reminder of the latent warrior culture of Japan, which all of Asia still fears. We exterminated most of it in WW2, but there's still traces of it there. They've got a tradition of duty and honor that goes back at least a couple thousand years.

They were horrendously effective enemies (embodying "no retreat, no surrender"), but they make excellent allies.

[BostonianRightist]

...unlike the French who surrender in 60 seconds!

No, no, no. The French surrendered long before that. It took them 60 seconds to set up their Nazi sympathizing government.

[steve-b]

the French who surrender in 60 seconds

Taking that long to surrender would make someone the French equivalent of the Japanese soldiers who holed up for decades on end.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

"Took them sixty years to surrender? I can admire that, unlike the French who surrender in 60 seconds! :-)"

The 60-second Frenchies were the holdouts...

[noblejones]

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. . . unlike the French who surrender in 60 seconds!
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60 seconds? When did it ever take that long? That would be epic.

[An Old Marine]

You are right. You have to respect that kind of committment.

[moose2004]

Vive La France, Vive La Victory! (sarcasm)

[moog]

There was a guy on an island in the Pacific who still thought the war was going on until 1972.