It's still hard to come to grips with even just as an exercise. We had similar difficulties in the Pacific in WWII with the Bushido Code. The reaction there wa

It's still hard to come to grips with even just as an exercise. We had similar difficulties in the Pacific in WWII with the Bushido Code. The reaction there was, shall we say, less restrained. Grim business, founded in a vehement racism as a central operating principle.