The emperor's orders to his troops basically said, you're not to fall into the enemy's hands. And maybe making sure that the conditions were such, and athey, we called it diabolical on the part of the officers. So in trying to figure out why the japanese would be committing all these atrocities, it's still an open question. Seems counterproductive, doesn't it? There's one other aspect that might be worth introducing into here, though. In the fighting in new guinea, there will be a japanese soldier named ogaa matasugu. He will write a book after the war called human beings and extremists the island of death, new gu

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