Sorry, back then we DID think it was right to take out the bastards who bombed Pearl Harbor, killed and maimed our soldiers in captivity, treated missionaries like animals and, in general, weren’t fit to live. The japanese people were fanatics.
Back then we knew the difference between right and wrong. Today’s wimps think the world is all shades of gray. Pun intended.
My late uncle was a Catholic Priest who worked in the missions in the Philippines. He was taken prisoner when Japan invaded, and rode out the war in an internment camp.
Mind you he was a Christian clergyman whose core teachings were all about forgiving your enemy. He never said anything good about the Japanese the whole time I knew him. Said the military prisoners in the camp next-door had things far, far worse.