I read the book Unbreakable.
According to that account, the Japs were worse than the Germans. By a large margin.
Govt covered it up because they wanted to ally with Japan.
[I read the book Unbreakable.
According to that account, the Japs were worse than the Germans. By a large margin.
Govt covered it up because they wanted to ally with Japan.]
That difference is why numerous postwar Asian leaders had prior experience working for the Japanese occupation authorities in responsible positions. The major names are Korea’s Park Chung-hee, Taiwan’s Lee Teng-hui, Indonesia’s Sukarno and Suharto, Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew and Burma’s Aung San and Ne Win.
The Japanese attitude towards the conquered was fairly simple. Brutal collective reprisals were mounted against populations in regions that were perceived as harboring guerrillas or enemy troops. For instance, after the Doolittle mission that inflicted 50 dead in Tokyo, Chinese sources claim Japanese forces killed 250K people in areas of China where Doolittle’s men ditched their aircraft and were spirited out of China.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doolittle_Raid#Zhejiang-Jiangxi_campaign
But those who went about their lives as before, prior to Japanese rule, were left alone. Exemplary atrocities were mounted against trouble spots to discourage flare-ups in guerrilla attacks, but areas that complied were spared.
That’s a very different policy from Germany’s, which killed or tried to work to death every Jew it came across. Germany’s long-term plan was to rid the world of people who could not pass for German, and many that did pass for German.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_Plan
Japan wanted to rule the world whereas Germany wanted to kill it. Japan sought obedient subjects. Germany sought a world unpopulated by subhuman races - for Germans, the taint was in the blood. That’s the principal reason Germany’s actions are reviled to an extent Japan’s are not.