Its good except for the fact that they struggle with admitting failure or wrongs. Honor is fine but you have to learn from your mistakes and if you cant admit them you learn nothing. One of the greatest things about the US is that we teach everything we did in our history classes. From ****ing over Native Americans to slavery and jim crow etc.. No other country in the world is as open about its past mistakes as the US and its something others should learn from. /random tangent
That's what the U.N views us as a country, the Abusive Husband who wants a second chance back in the relationship..
I'm curious why you didn't refer to the Germans as "krauts" while you referred to the Japanese as "Japs"?
Keep in mind though that a lot of Japanese media has also romanticized Samurai who in general were thugs who lived off of oppressing the peasant class, there is a whole genre of Yakuza movies, Hentai culture that celebrates sexual violence and also a Rightwing movement that celebrates the Japanese empire that brutally subjugated other people.
I'd put money on pride and committment to the mother land. You have to remember that this is the same country that had plenty of fighters that flew perfectly good planes into ships.
I agree. But my point about an orderly and obedient society still stands...not that you were contradicting it. The Japanese banzai charges were both legendary and suicidal. And yes, in many cases they'd rather commit suicide than surrender and/or admit defeat, as death was preferable to their perception of dishonor. This is something that predates WWII by a thousand years. Right or wrong, it's a cultural thing that on one level or another still has its influence today as it speaks to an orderly and obedient society.
Has to do with the culture and lifestyle. I think theyve all grown up and been taught all throughout their life to help one another in an national crisis since japan is prone to typhoons, volcanos, earthquakes, tsunamis...
So much for no looting. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42208038/ns/world_news-asiapacific $500,000 vanishes from tsunami-ravaged bank 'Somebody stole the money in the midst of the chaos,' Japanese police official says TOKYO — The earthquake and tsunami that pulverized coastal Japan crippled a bank's security mechanisms and left a vault wide open. That allowed someone to walk off with 40 million yen ($500,000). The March 11 tsunami washed over the Shinkin Bank, like much else in Kesennuma, and police said between the wave's power and the ensuing power outages, the vault came open. "The bank was flooded, and things were thrown all over. It was a total mess. Somebody stole the money in the midst of the chaos," said a police official in Miyagi prefecture, where Kesennuma is located. The bank notified police on Tuesday, 11 days after the disaster, said the official, who spoke on customary condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
