The Japanese had no respect for the prisoners since the prisoners surrendered and in the eyes of the Japanese, surrender meant you were a coward. For the Japanese, the word surrender is not in their vocabulary, if you were a Japanese soldier, you either died in battle or survived through the war. In result to this strong belief, the Japanese didn’t even view their prisoners as human beings, rather they viewed them as trash and cowards and treated them according to that belief. Any signs of exhaustion or disobedience was not taken lightly by the guards and to them, meant the prisoner was showing disrespect. To the Japanese, surrender meant you had given up your rights and you were no longer a “human being,” this is the main reason why the prisoners of the Japanese were treated so
The Japanese had no respect for the prisoners since the prisoners surrendered and in the eyes of the Japanese, surrender meant you were a coward. For the Japanese, the word surrender is not in their vocabulary, if you were a Japanese soldier, you either died in battle or survived through the war. In result to this strong belief, the Japanese didn’t even view their prisoners as human beings, rather they viewed them as trash and cowards and treated them according to that belief. Any signs of exhaustion or disobedience was not taken lightly by the guards and to them, meant the prisoner was showing disrespect. To the Japanese, surrender meant you had given up your rights and you were no longer a “human being,” this is the main reason why the prisoners of the Japanese were treated so