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https://friesian.com/divebomb.htm Tl;dr; WW2 Japan's behaviour had deep roots in its culture and religion.

The issue is that with Japan being unified, the Samurai shifted from a warrior class to an aristocratic-administrative one. Now this was a good thing because it brought an end to the constant warfare, but it resulted in a lot of people raised with warrior ideals having no actual battles to...

Judging from their military songs immediately before/during WW2, it seems they viewed dying gloriously AS THE POINT of going to war.