Claim what you want. Yet you provide no citations, primary references, etc that the average Japanese citizen was aware of this information.
It certainly did not come from Japanese media during WW2, as the military, went to great pains to hide their torture of Allied forces and subjugated peoples, as research of the Rape of Nanking and other war crimes became known.
The Japanese people were told and believed they were a superior people to other Asians and that Westerners had abused and tortured Japanese in years prior. It’s a stretch to claim that this was tacit endorsement of torture.
Please provide a book or reference that buttresses your claim even in the broader sense.
yes, keep up the idea that somehow the catenary of WW2 were helpless uniformed innocent culturally benevolent people.
Literally you are showing your lack of the Imperial Japanese.
Thier very culture was steeped in the abuse of those viewed as foreigners, Japanese Supremacy was not an ideal it was a culture that established near uninhibited abuses of those in the lower castes.
Also, the idea that over 6 million active duty by Aug 1945, just before the end of the war somehow never communicated and talked about the acts, they committed to their families and friends back home is beyond naive.
They knew, not to the man but as a collective they very much knew what was being done and saw it as acceptable as their culture.
Try reading up on all the forced labor camps most of which lead to the death of the enslaved, projects to build Japan infrastructure as its imperialist ambitions grew. Do your own research and learn the truth instead of spouting baseless falsehoods.
Show your proof that the civilian population was not aware and kept completely ignorant of the 10’s of millions of deaths at the hands of their family members in the Imperial Army, do you even hear your own words?