Re: Context.
Too True. The Japanese had been raping Korea since 1905 and China since 1932. They are welcomed as liberators in many parts of Colonial Asia but like the Germans in Russia that image was quickly destroyed by their racist and unbelievable level of brutality.
The bataan death march. Death camps in China, the rape and slaughter of British prisoners, thousands of Korean and Chinese women taken as sex slaves, the vivisection of bomber crews captured in Japan. The Rape of Nanking, the list goes on and on.
I don't glory in any human misery but the more I've read about the Imperial Japanese period, the more I think "What you sow is what you reap."
At least the Germans treated SOME opponents and people differently. The Japanese give no quarter to anybody.