>>20552240Japan for over a year went on a massive propaganda campaign showing that their wives and children were training and willing to die for their homeland. And maybe they were, who knows? American GI's in Okinawa already sent hundreds of concerned telegrams to Washington saying most Japanese civilians were killing themselves or attacking Americans instead of surrendering to US GI's.
Japan willingly and proudly blurred the line between civilian and combatant, even for children and women.
