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* [[Badass Army|Badass Navy]] : The IJN. [[Badass Decay|Initially]].
** The Imperial Japanese Army almost counts as a [[Badass Army]] because it had such an incredible amount of pluck. But it had almost no sophistication or finesse unlike the Imperial Japanese Navy, and Allied troops tended to fairly commonly "give" several times better then what they "received" from the IJA. The reverse was true, however, for the vast bulk of the action it saw during the wars; most Chinese 'troops' were irregulars - that is to say, militiamen - and they were almost universally ill-equipped and ill-led, and even more poorly coordinated. An exception would be the Chinese Nationalists' 'German' divisions, which were largely wiped out at the Battle of Shanghai, and their Expeditionary Force in Burma, which was trained and equipped (and supplied, and led, and coordinated) to US Army standards.
* [[Better to Die Than Be Killed]]: Suicidal or near suicidal behavior in [[Despair Event Horizon|desperate circumstances]] actually had many examples in [[World War II]] among many belligerents; it was rare among Americans only because of their limited
* [[Big Brother Instinct]]: Some Americans felt this toward the Chinese - they felt they had done a lot to prevent China from being carved up between the other Imperial powers, for instance, as a result of their 'Open Door' policy to China. Likewise the Japanese government promoted this kind of pan-Asian-solidarity as a post-facto means of legitimating their Asian Empire.
** The Japanese legitimately believed their propaganda. Tojo was crying during the formation of the East Asia Prosperity Sphere
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