[holden]

propaganda was mass- produced that depicted the Japanese as subhuman and extremely cruel and depraved

My late dad could have told anyone, without resorting to trumped-up or manufactured propanganda after his 4-year stint in Japanese POW camps, that the Japanese military was "extremely cruel and depraved." The only Japanese plan for POWs (in only mild preference to "take no prisoners," i.e., kill them on the spot) was to get whatever work output they could from them in their stored-up body mass, subsidized only slightly by meager rice rations. When the POW's body mass was depleted and their work on earth was ended, they were simply expected to die, according to the calculations done long before.

Compare that to how Gitmo detainees have been treated.

HF

[2ndDivisionVet]

My father would never buy a Japanese car, period.

[jalisco555]

My late dad could have told anyone, without resorting to trumped-up or manufactured propanganda after his 4-year stint in Japanese POW camps, that the Japanese military was "extremely cruel and depraved." The only Japanese plan for POWs (in only mild preference to "take no prisoners," i.e., kill them on the spot) was to get whatever work output they could from them in their stored-up body mass, subsidized only slightly by meager rice rations. When the POW's body mass was depleted and their work on earth was ended, they were simply expected to die, according to the calculations done long before.

The Japanese also had plans to murder all POWs in the event of invasion or defeat. It was only the rapid surrender after Nagasaki that forestalled this.