"The 30-day battle for Manila had begun.
The devastation that followed was not on the scale of the Rape of Nanking in China. But at least 50,000 Filipinos died, many in acts of deliberate atrocity by the Japanese.
Of the 20 million people living in the Philippines at the start of the war, an estimated 1 million were killed during the Japanese occupation. "
http://www.iht.com/articles/1995/02/03/edwarn.php
We killed 1.2 million Philipinnes after the Spanish-American War.