Japan, like Sparta before it, believed in "Death before Honor", meaning fighting men would die before surrendering. Surrendering was dishonorable.Allied fighting men surrendered routinely, it was...
About 27,000 US Troops were taken as POWs during WW-2 and 11,000 died while in captivity. Many died while in transit to the Japanese mainland on the Hellships, some of which were sunk by Allied...