In the book implacable foes, historians waldo henrix and markolicio compare the two in this morale regard. They point out that the japanese situation was often just going to be a question of victory or death. During the final weeks of the war in europe, more than one million, 500 thousand germans surrendered to the western allies. In contrast, they write, no organized unit of the imperial japanese army surrendered during the entire pacific war until they were ordered to do so by the emperor after japan had formally agreed to capitulate. And as we have already pointed out, there were a bunch of panese soldiers that just because the war ended,