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Given the things that have come to light since then, I can't fault them for choosing suicide over capture.
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Um… the Imperial Japanese had a very well documented history of horrible treatment of prisoners. Yes, small units were horrible in the Us forces, the poor treatment was quite wide spread in the Japanese side.