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@ArdanianRight @cowanon @gladicouldnthelp The only reason that the Japanese committed atrocities at all is because everyone was doing it back then and people didn't shy away from brutal wars. It's only until the 50s that Western culture in general has treated wars as anything other than horrific nightmarish bloodbaths that destroyed the land, injured people in more ways than the merely physical, and permanently scarred entire nations.
They did it anyways because their only previous examples of how foreign nations treated each other was during the centuries of scorn and hatred by the Chinese empires, the two full Mongolian invasions repelled by natural disasters of such a fortuitous magnitude that it was nearly impossible to think it wasn't divine intervention, the two or three brutal wars to conquer Korea that failed, the constant insidious and greedy influence by foreign Westerners with vastly superior technology, the sudden reappearance of them in your own little world after said foreigners so utterly curbstomped the regional superpower so hard that they essentially became economic slaves, undergoing a civil war based entirely around just how quickly the nation has to modernize to not get assfucked by these foreigners, followed by 30 desperate years of social and economic revolution while said foreigners turn their attention away from you just long enough to wage such brutal wars of conquest upon a continent they barely care about, only to get your nearest European neighbor to send their entire fleet against you. You win somehow, with supposedly inferior technology, and you even win a global war just by choosing the right alliances and making enough gestures. Then you spend 20 years trying to consolidate your own little sphere of influence while a nation 8000km away thinks you're treading on their toes and begins to economically choke you hard enough that your only options are to become a slave like China or try to attack them so quickly and viciously that they sign some sort of will-back-off-for-a-few-years treaty. They choose neither and after 4 years of waging the most brutal war known to mankind they kill 200,000 of your civilians in a way more horrific and violent than anything else in human history.
You should be glad the Japanese are just happy with hating their neighbors in a constant but mostly nonviolent way. We've never given them any reason to do anything else.