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Dinner time table banter?

Keep this in mind, Japanese soldiers held out to the last. Some much longer than you would believe. Their code was to fight and resist; to fail was shame upon themselves, their families and the Emperor. They took this code religiously.

http://www.wanpela.com/holdouts/registry.html

(some one can help me out on links....please.)

Whether there were reprisals and revenge actions by US forces is moot considering the mindset of the enemy. On Okinawa, the Japanese propaganda machine convinced the Okinawans that Americans were brutal marauders and urged them to commit suicide rather than capitulate. The fate of the civilians who flung themselves from cliffs holding their children is blood on Japanese hands.

The atrocities and and experimentations on humans conducted by both the Nazis and the Japanese were recorded as medical research data and saved for posterity.....and captured by the Allied Forces in both theaters. It was kept. The information held medical and forensic value....at the price of the horror in obtaining it.

Any one fishing for apologies should read history more carefully and examine closely their motives in condemning a free and responsible society.