Has anyone wondered why Japanese never let the enemy caught them after losing a battle as a prisoners? Every time they were about to lose, they wouldn’t let others to capture them but they’d commit suicide. Also, the Banzai charge and Kamikaze attacks were the attacks that used the pilot to fly to the specific target and simply do the bombing suicide. So, why did the Japanese use a lot of suicide tactics in the World War II instead of surrendering or just ‘Hit and Run’?
According to what I’ve read, one interesting fact about Japan in the World War II was how people never gave up or surrendered. If they were about to capture, they’d self-scarified to prevent from capturing as prisoners. The only group of people who got captured was because they were too badly injured and couldn’t disembowel themselves. Japanese believed they’d die rather than being caught and needed to go serve another country. It was warrior’s tradition to have the belief that they had to die with honor to their country.
For the Kamikaze attacks, with great eager from their leaders, Japanese had their intention to make high accuracy attack to the target. Therefore, it happened to be suicide drives to American ships. Also, it saved Japan’s fuel because it’d be a one-way trip to the target. The pilots had no fear to die, they believed they'd get a place in heaven after done an honor to their beloved country.
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