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It's not fair to equate war deaths with genocide deaths



What do you think the Japanese were planning to do, exactly?


War deaths? Surely you jest. Most of that 2.5x were civilians and were killed by the Imperial Japanese Army in ways a lot nastier than the concentration camps; it was genocide in all but name. The depth of hatred for the Japanese among older Asians is staggering for that very reason.


Japan's wartime actions in Manchuria were a genocide, they followed the "Three Alls" policy: "kill all, burn all, loot all". Arguably responsible for the deaths of more than 2.7 million Chinese civilians.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Alls_Policy




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