Took them sixty years to surrender? I can admire that, unlike the French who surrender in 60 seconds! :-)
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.
No, no, no. The French surrendered long before that. It took them 60 seconds to set up their Nazi sympathizing government.
Taking that long to surrender would make someone the French equivalent of the Japanese soldiers who holed up for decades on end.
"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...
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60 seconds? When did it ever take that long? That would be epic.
You are right. You have to respect that kind of committment.
Vive La France, Vive La Victory! (sarcasm)
There was a guy on an island in the Pacific who still thought the war was going on until 1972.