Reading the words of Japanese soldiers who participated in these acts is sickening but a must for anyone with an interest in WWII. Here is just a sampling: Link
"We had fun killing Chinese. We caught some innocent Chinese and either buried them alive, or pushed them into a fire, or beat them to death with clubs. When they were half dead we pushed them into ditches and burned them, torturing them to death. Everyone gets his entertainment this way. Its like killing dogs and cats.
-- Asahi Shimbun, Japanese soldier, describing Japanese atrocities during the Rape of Nanking.
I’ve read about it and what frightened me the most is how friendly the Japanese were until they started butchering people. Registering the females and then brutalizing all of them. I remember reading that they handed a starving child a candy bar laced with anthrax. Among so many other horrific things. I really can’t blame the Chinese for hating the Japanese.
I don’t thnk these celebrities understand that they would not be among the ones in power if a genuine fascist took over.