[Tom4784]

I don't think it's fair to paint all of Japan as monsters, just like with Germany there were likely a large section of Japanese society that didn't agree to what was going on but didn't have the means to do anything about it. If we were put in the same situation we'd most likely go along with whatever just to save ourselves, it's easy to judge the citizens of Japan or Germany but we've never lived under the kinds of governments that they did during the war.

A lot of armies committed atrocities in WW2 because each side was demonised and the soldiers on all sides were lead to believe that the enemy was less than human. War brings out the worst in people. It definitely brought out the worst in America, the dropping of the atomic bombs were one of the worst atrocities of WW2 and innocent people are still suffering from it today. There was no excuse for it, Japan was on their way to surredering anyway. It was just a cruel attack against Japan's civillians.