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Japan has had a thousand year old tradition of no surrender
The idea was that once you surrendered, you lost all agency and instantly became an animal
Nobody would expect to be treated with any dignity instead the fate that someone who surrendered should expect was to be tortured to death and humiliated
That's why ritual suicide was so common
There's a Japanese saying that says that a worthy death justifies an entire life, including one filled with constant failure, whereas an undignified death invalidates an entire life
