The Japanese were completely vicious in WW2.
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I was personally acquainted with two survivors of the Bataan Death March. Yes vicious is the word.
One black and one white and the Japs did not discriminate in their cruelty.
True that
My great uncle was in the Bataan Death March as well. His throat was slit from ear-to-ear, but he survived the war. He hated Japs and MacArthur to his grave. The Japanese were much worse than the Germans, and their sadism was not confined to concentration camps. They tortured and killed their own almost as easily as the enemy.
Having toured Germany and having many Japanese friends cured me of ever thinking “it could never happen here.” When savages rule, no society is exempt from barbarity. Our own society turns a blind eye as innocent babies are dissected daily in the sterile environs of the abortionist, and academics use the results of the slaughter without regard to morality or ethics. We have been granted an undeserved reprieve, but the tyrannical impulse grows in each generation.