[sailor76]

for all the atrocities the conquered countries and POWs suffered.
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You obviously are not a student of BUSHIDO. If you were you'd understand the shame of being captured and why most Japanese preferred death to it.

If anyone bares some responsibility, it's the US Government for not informing GI's that their enemy played by a different, very different set of rules; but of course they didn't. As for the Asian, they knew what was coming and usually capitulated .

[thesharkboy]

If anyone bares some responsibility, it's the US Government for not informing GI's that their enemy played by a different, very different set of rules...

The Japanese government bears all responsibility for how they treated prisoners of war, and for how they treated conquered countries (and for conquering them in the first place). That the US bore any responsibility for the enemy's war crimes is outrageous.

[PeterPrinciple]

for not informing GI’s that their enemy played by a different, very different set of rules;

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It didn’t take long for the GI’s to figure it out...…………...

[catnipman]

“US Government for not informing GI’s that their enemy played by a different, very different set of rules”

it didn’t take the GIs very long to figure it out ... which is why the GIs didn’t take Jap prisoners, just like the Japs didn’t take prisoners either ...