terrible times...but on the happier side, the yen is very powerful....So who won the war?

So was the Deutsche mark.

Told to commit suicide, survivors now face elimination from history
Choho Zukeran was a schoolboy, mobilised to dig beachfront trenches, when US soldiers landed on his native Okinawa, sparking one of the bloodiest battles of the second world war. Over the next few weeks, some 200,000 Japanese and Americans would die, including more than a quarter of Okinawa's civilian population. Most died in the invasion, others killed themselves - on the orders of the army that was supposed to be protecting them.
"The army had given us two grenades each. They told us to hurl the first one at the enemy and to use the second one to kill ourselves," Mr Zukeran told the Guardian from his home in Okinawa, a subtropical island 1,000 miles south-west of Tokyo. Whole families and communities committed suicide together.
Yet if the government in Tokyo gets its way, Japanese children may never learn how hundreds of Okinawa residents, under direct or indirect pressure from the military, took their own lives.
"It is an undeniable fact that mass suicides could not have occurred without the involvement of the Japanese army," the Okinawa city assembly said.
In the weeks after the invasion, Mr Zukeran's family walked from village to village to escape the Americans who, they had been told, would rape and kill them amid a "typhoon of steel".
Eyewitnesses claim entire families committed suicide together on the orders of fanatical Japanese soldiers rather than allow them to surrender and betray sensitive information about troop movements. Some 700 committed mass suicide in the Kerama islets off Okinawa.
Info From : http://www.guardian.co.uk

The way the mothers toss their babies off the cliffs was horrible!

i don't understand why that mother throws her baby down first.. i mean.. how could she? the last thing they see is their baby falling off the cliff.. why not go together..
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was it really?

Suicides in Japan have always been the rage - kami-kaze and hari-kari to name two styles! Well, it's a way of regulating populations, considering that Japan is only very small and very crowded!