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The code of Bushido is directly translated as "the way of the warrior". It was the code which became the standard living protocol for the Japanese soldier. The code itself does not state that prisoners are to be executed immediately. Many Japanese officers and soldiers believed and were told that in order to meet the standards of the warrior, they must not hesitate to kill the enemy. Therefore prisoners were executed to prove that they were worthy of being called warriors. Also the Japanese did not believe in surrender and as such, it was thought that all prisoners were lowly cowards who were too scared to meet their deaths. This was a bit at odds with Western ideas about surrender.
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Were there many cases of retribution by POW's or their liberators on Japanese guards?
There are a few sad stories of prisoners or their liberators taking revenge against the Japanese. However, they are relatively few, probably fewer than a dozen.
Did the Japanese keep any American prisoners?
POWs may have been rewarded for duties performed, possibly even paid. But traditionally prisoners received little respect from Japanese military men, as surrendering was looked upon as a form of cowardice. With the possible exception(s) of captured naval personnel; it has generally been recognized that sailors swimming in the sea because their warship was sunk in battle, are swimming in the ocean because their vessel was honorably sunk in action, and not due to cowardice.
How did the beliefs of the samurai Japanese in world war 2?
On Guadalcanal, the Americans were amazed that some of the Japanese soldiers fought them hand to hand with swords. This is in the strictest tradition of Samurai. But, moreover, the indoctrination of these men and the culture of the Samurai pervaded Japanese society. Bushido called for courtesy to your enemy only if they merited it. If the enemy demanded bushido before death and the Japanese executioner could not provide it, the condemned were supposed to be allowed to live. But to surrender was the lowest thing that any warrior could do and called for execution.
Threatened to attack the Union for stopping one of their ships and taking prisoners?
the british
What hapend to pearl harber?
The attack on Pearl Harbor was an effort by the Japanese to disable the US Navy which would prevent our forces from fully taking part in World War 2.
Were there many cases of retribution by POW's or their liberators on Japanese guards?
There are a few sad stories of prisoners or their liberators taking revenge against the Japanese. However, they are relatively few, probably fewer than a dozen.
Did the Japanese keep any American prisoners?
POWs may have been rewarded for duties performed, possibly even paid. But traditionally prisoners received little respect from Japanese military men, as surrendering was looked upon as a form of cowardice. With the possible exception(s) of captured naval personnel; it has generally been recognized that sailors swimming in the sea because their warship was sunk in battle, are swimming in the ocean because their vessel was honorably sunk in action, and not due to cowardice.
How did the beliefs of the samurai Japanese in world war 2?
On Guadalcanal, the Americans were amazed that some of the Japanese soldiers fought them hand to hand with swords. This is in the strictest tradition of Samurai. But, moreover, the indoctrination of these men and the culture of the Samurai pervaded Japanese society. Bushido called for courtesy to your enemy only if they merited it. If the enemy demanded bushido before death and the Japanese executioner could not provide it, the condemned were supposed to be allowed to live. But to surrender was the lowest thing that any warrior could do and called for execution.
Threatened to attack the Union for stopping one of their ships and taking prisoners?
the british
Who threatened to attack the Union for stopping one of their ships and taking prisoners?
The British
Who threatened to attack the union for stopping one of their ships taking prisoners?
The British
What is USM-41?
It is a US Marshall Service Order. It is used when taking prisoners into custody.
What hapend to pearl harber?
The attack on Pearl Harbor was an effort by the Japanese to disable the US Navy which would prevent our forces from fully taking part in World War 2.
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Why so many prisoners die on the Bataan Death March?
As various American strongholds in the Philippines fell to the advancing Japanese in early 1942, the subsequent "Bataan Death March" witnessed considerable loss of life. The primary causes were two in number: many Americans who passed into captivity were in a seriously weakened condition due to the fighting that had taken place. Second, the Japanese were neither prepared for nor very much interested in the care-taking duties required for the many (and unexpected) prisoners which their assaults had captured.
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Whats the name of Japanese belief to fight to the death called?
Bushido or way of the warrior is the code of frugality, loyalty, the art of war and "Honor Unto Death". ... the warrior code of Bushido may have been perverted by the Japanese warriors of WW2 into the resulting bloodbaths that took place all through the period of Japanese expansionism from 1931 to the ending of WW2 in nuclear holocaust in August, 1945. Especially egregious examples include the infamous Rape of Nanking in 1937 and the Bataan Death March in 1942. The thinking ran that the Japanese soldier, himself fully willing to die rather than surrender to an enemy, considered that any enemy who was willing to surrender rather than die was a coward, or worse than a coward. Thus if an enemy surrendered to the Japanese rather than die fighting or committing suicide, then that enemy was beneath Japanese contempt and could be brutalized, tortured and murdered in the most imaginative ways possible. This has been cited as a reason (not an excuse) for the Bataan Death March after the Fall of Corregidor in 1942, during which possibly as many as 10,000 American and Filipino prisoners may have died or been murdered before reaching a prison camp. It's been suggested that the Japanese did not respect these prisoners because the Japanese themselves would never have surrendered. After 1942 they got their chance to demonstrate this repeatedly. Once the Americans turned the corner in the Pacific with the victory at Midway in June 1942, the Japanese proved their suicidal mettle again and again. They never seemed to reason out that living to fight another day might have more merit than dying valorously. As the Americans invaded island after island held by the Japanese, the already small number of Japanese prisoners got smaller and smaller, until by the time of Iwo Jima and Okinawa in 1945, there essentially were no prisoners. Entire garrisons either died in battle or by suicide, taking with them as many Americans as they could. On Okinawa, the Japanese military even managed to talk the Okinawan civilians into committing mass suicide by telling them that the Americans would cook and eat them. The penultimate example of this perversion of Bushido was the Kamikaze, a suicide pilot on a one way trip to sink an American battleship. Except that the record shows that mostly the Kamikaze ended up simply being shot down, and the ones that got through mostly sank destroyers and oilers. Close to 4000 Japanese as young as 17 lost their lives in this manic effort which some sources suggest cost the Allies a total of some 80 ships, none bigger than a destroyer. The Americans to this day have never been quite able to "get inside the head" of the suicidal Japanese, any more than we can "get inside the head" of the suicidal Islamic militants who are modern day Kamikaze. There is simply a cultural gulf which we can probably never bridge. But the bigger problem is the same one that we faced in 1944-45: how do you stop someone from killing you whose own life means nothing to him?
