Japan Explains Suicide Bombings?

One of my favorite shows is Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. It's about a Japanese police agency known as Section 9 that combats "cyberterrorism" in the year 2030. The main arc of the second season was about a refugee crisis in Japan with thousands of people coming in from the Asian mainland.

One of the episodes is about suicide bombings. Refugees had been conducting suicide bombing operations all over Fukuoka. One of the characters, Ishikawa, defines suicide bombing the best. It's an act committed by desperate people who are driven by their own personal plight and desperation. Notice he didn't say religion.

Robert Pape conducted a study on suicide bombing, publishing a book about titled Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism. He found that suicide bombings are conducted: "to compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory that the terrorists consider to be their homeland". The most suicide bombings conducted are by the Tamil Tigers, a Tamil nationalist group that is predominantly Hindu. In fact 85% of suicide bombings are conducted by secular organizations.

Now it was the Japanese who conducted the first suicide bombing in Israel (Nihon Sekigun during the Lod Airport massacre). And don't forget those Kamikaze pilots in WWII. I think more people should listen to the Japanese on this sort of stuff.