HUMAN 1C Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, Fokker E.Ii, Human Behavior
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Historian"s reasons: the japanese had expected shanghai to fall much more quickly and easily. And they were angry at the chinese as they reached nanking. Nanking also refused to surrender at first: education, military training, and samurai tradition had taught the men disdain for those who surrender rather than fight to the death. Most japanese soldiers in the war had chosen death over surrender: there were too many chinese soldier remaining. Once they had conquered the city, the japanese had to immobilize them or court retaliation. There was not enough food available to maintain the chinese soldiers as prisoners of war: one of the commanders, prince asaka, had allegedly given the order: kill all captives. d. i. The prisoners were divided into groups of a dozen shoot to kill separately. War guilt: this is inhuman a. i. we are pushing these people out of our species, thus rescuing our species, human behavior in need of correction, we can repress and forget c. i.
