Most ironic thing was that the KMT was encouraged to take prisoners to use as bargaining chip with Japan.
When Red Cross went to Japan, Japan straight up said no Japanese soldiers were taken and those captured aren't
Japanese (Basically implying that a real Japanese wouldnt surrender)
The troops viewed every POW as a coward, because they themselves were taught that surrendering is
cowardice and a disgrace, they were taught to not surrender at all. This characterized the Imperials as
brutal to POWs.
Women's rights in Imperial Japan was abysmal, where poor families can basically sell their daughters to brothels as legalized slaves. This way of life extended into their conquered territories as the comfort women.
However, the overarching cause for these is the military, who sought to popularize their rule by claiming tenets
to nationalism and racism, and combined with a corrupt form of bushido, instilled the thought of supremacy over their non Japanese subjects. So yeah, the evils of
society: ultranationalism and racism. Chinese soldiers guarding a captured.Japanese soldier in Changde, Hunan Province, China // Nov-Dec 1943
Most ironic thing was that the KMT was encouraged to take prisoners to use as bargaining chip with Japan.
When Red Cross went to Japan, Japan straight up said no Japanese soldiers were taken and those captured aren't
Japanese (Basically implying that a real Japanese wouldnt surrender)
The troops viewed every POW as a coward, because they themselves were taught that surrendering is
cowardice and a disgrace, they were taught to not surrender at all. This characterized the Imperials as
brutal to POWs.
Women's rights in Imperial Japan was abysmal, where poor families can basically sell their daughters to brothels as legalized slaves. This way of life extended into their conquered territories as the comfort women.
However, the overarching cause for these is the military, who sought to popularize their rule by claiming tenets
to nationalism and racism, and combined with a corrupt form of bushido, instilled the thought of supremacy over their non Japanese subjects. So yeah, the evils of
society: ultranationalism and racism.

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