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@the-inkspiller

i agree with you that it should be researched! Although not by the faint of heart. There are reasons for their war crimes & cruelty because their were very much indoctrinated by the culture they lived in, however it still is terrible(not that you are saying it wasn’t). From my research, however, the Japanese did hosts of unnecessary war crimes, that had no reasonable explanation other than cruelty, partly because Jey viewed their prisoners as weak because they allowed themselves to be captured.

A couple things sparked my interest in reading up on it,  and the biggest was watching Unbroken, which, though the cruelty was terrible never really affected me in a personal way, and I thought it was a ‘war thing.’ However in my research I stumbled across accounts of the Rape of Nanking, as that battle is popularly called, and, my heart wept. That was unreasonable, unnecessary, and inhuman.

But that’s cool you come from a Japanese background! Three of my siblings stayed in China for a number of years, and met some really neat Japanese people. Perhaps you could fill me in on some more of your research?