Again as I posted previously, I’m not making excuses for the atrocities. I wrote and which you simply can’t understand is that news of those atrocities were tightly controlled by the government. The average Japanese citizen was supporting the war effort.
Wrong, their feudal society literally thrived on unquestionable obedience and the full knowledge of brutal cruelty to those who lose or fail to fight until they die.
Culturally they were bankrupt as a nation which led to millions of massacred Chinese, massive rapes and enslaved Koreans, much in the full knowledge of the average Japanese citizen as war spoil.
You arguing they were unaware of specific war crimes means nothing because in the larger context the Japanese Citizen understood this was the way of how they waged war and treated those not of their own lineage.
Your sophist assertions and obfuscations will not fly here unchallenged.