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Bushido got twisted when it met US supplied Gatling guns at Shiroyama and became more about a glorious death than a victorious life in the aftermath.

There is a term for 'beating the shit out of someone to get the crazy out of them, then helping them get back on their feet': 'Befriending'

With the IJN, it all came down to the officers involved, how much (if any) respect they had for their opponents, and how doggedly their opponents fought or how they were picked up (pilots/air crew). I get the feeling the ones who had actually spent any time in the US, or West in general, were...

Yeah, the bio-war stuff was...letting that go is still sketch as fuck. I don't think Hirohito knew about it till after the fact, with the way the IJA worked. As for the remaining members, we need to look at what happened in Germany with that radio operator from one of the camps. That kind of...

If he hadn't surrendered against army wishes, and violated court protocol to end the war using his power, things would have gotten much worse. Remember the IJA dragged Hirohito and Japan into war to justify their own budget.

My impression was that Hirohito was more of a figurehead for much of the 30's and that Tojo/IJA heads were the real power in Japan. The way the army heads reacted when Hirohito went to surrender is rather indicative of them seeing themselves as the real power in Japan.