Yes. They were. You really need to study up on what they were up to from 1879-1945.
They were very casually wiping out entire populations. You can find these in the Japanese records.
Are the leftist as bad? Yes. But they are not yet in power here. And can be stopped.
Your desire for Imperial Japan to have won would mean that they would not have been stopped.
And totalitarian regimes are all cut from the same bolt of cloth.
I visited the Air Force museum at Wright Pat, and what I remember the most was a POW display comparing how our boys (pilots) were treated by the Japanese versus the Germans. The Germans not only took good care of our boys, they even gave them dental care, until near the end of the war. The Japanese were horrific - its been decades, but I can barely control tears when I think about that display. Something like 98% of our POWs from Europe made it home...less than 50% made it back from Asia. And I won’t even get into the cannibalism there.
So I agree with you...but I also think that many here are either unable to or refuse to accept just how bad our Leftists are...so I stuck with my ‘Imperial Japan is better than the Leftists’ theme.
It’s killing our side - the INABILITY to understand what we’re fighting. We have people ON THIS SITE that think it’s better to elect Democrats than less-than-perfect Republicans. All the Democrats need is that clean majority, and people won’t know what hit them.