Yep, the Japs murdered 10,000 Chinese civilians just in their search for downed Doolittle crewmen.
Not to mention millions more Chinese who had the misfortune to be regarded as subhuman by the invading Japs.
Any credit should go to the Emperor, who in his broadcast told the Japanese people to accept defeat & occupation as absolutely inevitable. He defused an entire nation that had been prepared to fight to the last human standing.
Then MacArthur arrived and said, “I have deprived Japan of its divine emperor, but I’m giving you another - me!”
;^)
I think the Emperor got off easy; those people willing to fight to the death were doing so for him. Japanese rifles from the war are more valuable if they have the chrysanthemum emblem on them because the owner probably died in action; at the end of the war the Japanese soldiers filed those off before turning them in to avoid disgracing the emperor.
They slaughtered people across Asia and the throughout the islands (from the Philippines to Indonesia, Korea to Burma); unfortunately, in losing the war they lost their way, and the culture today is dysfunctional and dwindling.