“...and the 200+ American POWS that my Dad found beheaded and abandoned in a Japanese POW Camp on a nameless, godforsaken atoll in the Pacific AFTER the surrender was signed.”
The Jap prison guards had standing orders to kill prisoners if Allied forces approached. Most didn’t because they knew that wouldn’t end well for them either. But some...
So what you are saying is that this was government policy...not just the panicky reaction of crazy guards on an isolated island.
Which, of course, makes the Japanese Nation even more culpable, IMNSHO.