You need a little cultural perspective, dago. "Saving Lives" has not been good in-itself for many great civilizations throughout history. For example, the Celts might be the first "barbarians" to be depicted nobly in Greek art, all because the Greeks were highly impressed with the Celtic custom of suicide (after murdering their own wives and children) instead of capture and enslavement. In other words, for many civilizations, life as a conquered nation is not worth living.
Rather than seeing women and children fight in Japan, it's more likely that there would have been mass suicide.
Talk about perspective, you are so far off topic with a discussion about Greek perception of Celts, and Greek art that I find that absolutely irrelevant to the discussion about the Japanese behaviors, and what would constitute a wrong or acceptable practice for the Japanese in defense of homeland. We are talking such entirely different people and cultures, in two wildly separated times as to make your comparison irrelevant.
To simply make an argument that "people are people and they all act the same" is to ignore a lot of history.
Then, you decide your knowledge of the Japanese mindset of the 1940s in a time of war, with what is undoubtedly your very limited knowledge of the propaganda they are exposed to, is enough to make a judgment call on what the Japanese people would do in case of invasion and fighting on their home soil. Amazing.
