Original sentence: During the Second World War, a series of what in the late 20th Century would be called 'human rights abuses' took place.Part of the problem arises from the Japanese military mindset, which is based on the code of Bushido, the honour code of the Samurai warrior.The Bushido code manifested itself most clearly in the Kamikazi suicide pilots.Therefore, from the Japanese point of view, the prisoners they took were not worthy of treatment as humans.Thes ecan be summarised  in the following list:.This conflicted sharply with the western view of human rights, who consider the treatment of these peoples as inhuman and appalling.This says that a japanese warrior should die honourably in battle, but that to surrender and taken prisoner is the most dishonourable event of all, and such soldiers become less than human.Thus, even to this day, the Japanese refuse to apologise for the treatment of the peoples concerned, refuse to acknowledge that the treatment was atrocious, refuse to accept and guilt, and even gloss over or fail to mention it in japanese school history books.Whilst there is no disputing that these events occured, there is a general reluctance among the Japanese to admit that they were atrocities