If you fail in Japanese culture, you're considered to have shamed your family. And in WW2, honor was a big thing and people would kill themselves because of it-
In fact, America was scared of possibly killing Hirohito in a bombing raid because if the people of Japan learned he died, they would have committed mass suicide because they failed to honor him.
in seventh grade my classmate (who was asian) had a mental breakdown and said he was a... pink-man. My other whiteass classmate was like uH wHaTs A pInK-mAn? and me and my friend yelled at him saying that it was a slur he couldnt say.