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Horror in the East: Death Before Surrender

on BBC Two England

Conclusion of the two-part documentary looking at the Japanese treatment of prisoners of war in both world wars using archive footage and testimonies from victims and perpetrators of the cruelty.

This programme looks at the motivation of kamikaze pilots who flew their planes into Allied ships, the forces that drove a young student to kill his mother and then himself, and why so many Japanese soldiers chose to die rather than surrender.
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