It greatly hurt the morale of the Japanese soldiers, so much so, that the Japanese government tried to hide the more gruesome details of his death from the general public in order to soften the blow.
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Yamashita General Hideki Tojo was a General in the Imperial Japanese Army. He also served as Prime Minister of Japan during a lot of World War II (October 18, 1941 - July 22, 1944). Tojo was sentenced to death for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal of the Far East after the end of World War II.Naval Marshal General Isoroku Yamamoto.He was the leader of the combined fleet but Yomashita is the main Japanese genaral.the general of the japanes military during ww2 was general YamamatoGEN Homma; GEN Yamashita; ADM Tanaka (one of their best fighting admirals).
The Bataan Death March.
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Because the Japanese fought to the death. They did not surrender.
The Bataan Death March was used to arouse fury in the minds of the people of the United States. This march showed Japans brutality and militarism in a negative way and created more tension between the Japanese and the Americans. This hatred made the Americans more determined against the Japanese in the Second World War.