The Rape of Nanking is something else. So was the stuff Unit 731 used to do.
Some of it made the Germans look like Catholic school bullies.
They would have contests to see how many heads could be lopped off in a single swing. They’d stand Chinese people in a line 2 to 4 deep and then swing.
At least the end was quick. The Japanese tried to wipe out Korea, ethnically, as well.
It’s a funny place. Their culture is pretty cool, but they’ve been capable of some pretty weird stuff.
Every culture has those stories I suppose, but Japan’s was mucho.
IIRC,, there are still active strains of cholera in parts of China today that were created by Unit 731.