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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 January 2025. Moral code of the samurai This article is about the Japanese concept of chivalry. For other uses, see Bushido (disambiguation). A samurai in his armor in the 1860s. Hand-colored photograph by Felice Beato Bushidō (武士道, "the way of the warrior") is a moral code concerning samurai ...
This had the effect of making Japan look as though it was the victim inciting greater sympathy from its audience. [4] The propaganda pieces also often illustrated the Japanese people as pure and virtuous depicting them as superior both racially and morally. [10] The war is portrayed as continuous and is usually not adequately explained. [10]
There were growing external threats of the Cold War and Japan did not have adequate forces to counter it. During the Korean War (1950–1953) Japan was the forward logistics base and provided many supplies for US and UN forces. The unilateral renunciation of all military capabilities was questioned by conservative politicians.
The Enemy Airmen's Act was a law passed by Imperial Japan on 13 August 1942 which stated that Allied airmen participating in bombing raids against Japanese-held territory would be treated as "violators of the law of war" and subject to trial and punishment if captured by Japanese forces.
The Boshin War (戊辰 戦争, Boshin Sensō), sometimes known as the Japanese Revolution or Japanese Civil War, was a civil war in Japan fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and a coalition seeking to seize political power in the name of the Imperial Court.
Koyo Gunkan book cover The word bushido in the Koyo Gunkan (1616) Kosaka Masanobu by Utagawa Kuniyoshi The Kōyō Gunkan ( 甲陽軍鑑 ) is a record of the military exploits of the Takeda family , compiled largely by the Takeda vassal Kōsaka Danjō Masanobu , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and completed in 1616 by Obata Kagenori .
In the documentary The Fog of War, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara recalls General Curtis LeMay, who relayed the Presidential order to drop nuclear bombs on Japan, [135] said: "If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals." And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.
By the 1930s Japanese nationalism turned the country much more xenophobic; the Western origin of the laws such as the stipulation of Geneva convention made them unpopular (after the war, many Japanese accused of crimes against POWs, including mid-ranking soldiers, claimed they never even heard of the convention [6]: 24 ), [2] the interpretation ...