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I watched a discovery channel 3 hour special on Emporer Hirohito.

They brought a man on the show and interviewed him, he was 14 at the time of the war when the US was closest to the time of the invasion, and he recalled his town being told via messenger from the Emporer that a US invasion was imminent, and that to save their families honor they would have to commit suicide.

So him and his two brothers tied up their mother, and beat her to death. Then him and his next older brother tied up their oldest brother, and beat him to death. Finally he tied up his last brother and beat him to death with a rock.

There was no one left to kill him and he said he couldn't bring himself to commit suicide. He said there wasn't a day that goes by where he doesn't cry hysterically remembering how he saw all his friends and family commit suicide.

No one ever mentions those kind of things.