>Truly inspiring in comparison with the robotic obedience of the Japanese who would dig in to protect their island, whatever the cost may be. That's not quite

>Truly inspiring in comparison with the robotic obedience of the Japanese who would dig in to protect their island, whatever the cost may be. That's not quite the case. The conditions of surrender proposed, which the Japanese government rebuffed (or, 'mokusatsu'[0]) particularly included that Japan surrender its control over Korea and the island known now as Taiwan. It's more accurate to say that the Japanese empire would dig in to protect the areas they'd acquired, not just their island. In Korea, they'd put a lot of effort into trying to integrate the peninsula into Japan proper, for example linguistically. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokusatsu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mokusatsu