[ErnBatavia]

Did the Japanese soldiers enjoy slaughtering babies?

Yes; and it's my guess that this barbarism still lives in their "culture"....suppressed, maybe, but there nonetheless.

[muawiyah]

Japanese culture has two different pole positions or phases. It can flip overnight from one to the other quite readily.

At the moment they are portraying the good Japanese where people indulge in the arts and industry.

During the 30s and 40s they were portraying the bad Japanese where people indulge in war and destruction.

Although many societies have the capability of doing this, the Japanese do it more abruptly. The Chinese, in contrast, take much longer and tend to let the two phases overlap.

[Joe Boucher]

Been there and know this to be true.