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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
A good chunk of the 22,000 civilian casualties in Saipan chose to end their own lives rather then submit to the Americans.
Japanese culture venerated suicide back then, from killing yourself to atone for your failures, to killing yourself to avoid honorless capture.
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And like I said, I'm not denying the suicide tradition in Japan because I know of that history, but simply saying that 10-15 million people would not have commited suicide.
That number is just plain wrong. Maybe a couple hundred thousand at most.