That's the result of fanatical devotion to the cult of personality that surrounded Emperor Hirohito, who like Emperor's before him we're thought to be divine. I do believe there were many incidents in which the surrender of enemy forces were met with wholesale slaughter and other atrocities, seeing as the Japanese believed in Death before dishonor surrender or defeat. The Japanese government to this day refuses to admit responsibility for the R*** of Nanking. I'm not saying, the word Kamikaze should be a huge deal; but I am saying a children's game is the best place to take a war crime and diminish the horrible implications of them, in the name of giving your cousin something clever to say. Bungie oopsed; that's all there is to it.