"Legal Tender" wrote in message
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The Japs did not honor the Geneva Convention, they did honor the rules of
war.
The Geneva Convention says treat the prisoners good, rules of war say kill
all of the enemy.

no they don't.

The japs thought it was a dishonor to surrender, that is why our men who
did
surrender were treated as badly as they were. (are we listening out
there?)


ah the old Japanese honour system defence.

explain why they did not all commit seppuku after (or rather than) the
surrender, why prison camp guards turned up to surrenders pretending to be
hospital staff?

Tojo was a God to them and they gave it all for him and would have fought
to
the last man. I seem to remember many jumped off cliffs rather than
surrender.

Tojo was not considered a god by them.