R. J. Rummel, a professor of political science at the University of Hawaii, states that between 1937 and 1945, the Japanese military murdered from nearly 3,000,000 to over 10,000,000 people, most likely 6,000,000 Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos and Indochinese, among others, including Western prisoners of war. "This democide was due to a morally bankrupt political and military strategy, military expediency and custom, and national culture."[36] According to Rummel, in China alone, during 1937–45, approximately 3.9 million Chinese were killed, mostly civilians, as a direct result of the Japanese operations and 10.2 million in the course of the war
Historian Mitsuyoshi Himeta reports that a "Three Alls Policy" (Sankō Sakusen) was implemented in China from 1942 to 1945 and was in itself responsible for the deaths of "more than 2.7 million" Chinese civilians. This scorched earth strategy, sanctioned by Hirohito himself, directed Japanese forces to "Kill All, Burn All, and Loot All."these were the people we were fighting and that was their stratagy "every one is inferior to us and will be our slaves when we carve out our east-co-prosperity sphere"
Human experimentation and biological warfare Shiro Ishii, commander of Unit 731 Special Japanese military units conducted experiments on civilians and POWs in China and Korea. One of the most infamous was Unit 731 under Shirō Ishii. Victims were subjected to experiments including but not limited to vivisection and amputations without anesthesia and testing of biological weapons. Anesthesia was not used because it was believed to affect results.[45]
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Use of chemical weapons See also: Changde chemical weapon attack According to historians Yoshiaki Yoshimi and Kentaro Awaya, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, gas weapons, such as tear gas, were used only sporadically in 1937 but in the spring of 1938, however the Imperial Japanese Army began full-scale use of phosgene, chlorine, Lewisite and nausea gas (red), and from summer 1939, mustard gas (yellow) was used against both Kuomintang and Communist Chinese troops.[61] According to Yoshimi and Seiya Matsuno, Emperor Hirohito signed orders specifying the use of chemical weapons in China.[62] For example, during the Battle of Wuhan from August to October 1938, the Emperor authorized the use of toxic gas on 375 separate occasions, despite Article 23 of the Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907)[18] and article V of the Treaty in Relation to the Use of Submarines and Noxious Gases in Warfare[63] A resolution adopted by the League of Nations on 14 May condemned the use of poison gas by Japan.
According to GlobalSecurity.org, the experiments carried out by Unit 731 alone caused 3,000 deaths.[47] Furthermore, according to the 2002 International Symposium on the Crimes of Bacteriological Warfare, the number of people killed by the Imperial Japanese Army germ warfare and human experiments is around 580,000.so yeah i think karmicly it about ends up being square in the end as thats about the low estimate of how many people our bombs killed at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
furthermore to the people saying that those cities were not legitimate targets don't seem to know much about where the Japanese command structure for repulsing(2nd Japanese army group command and 5th command division) the invasion was based i believe at Hiroshima,with the bulk of Japanese remaining naval ops being routed through Nagasaki harbor and owing to the fact that up to this point no bombers had hit Hiroshima or Nagasaki it could better show off the bombs effect on what mounted to a military target that had yet to be hit with firebombs or other conventional munitions.also this was still ww2 and blind carpet bombing was still the norm for the era (check out dresden now that was closer to a war crime)and as horrible as it sounds to us now adays those nukes were almost an act of mercy compared to the extensive firebombing that had been going on near the tail end of ww2
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www.alternatehistory.com... here is the link to the article on the typhoon possibly complicating us invasion plans and the psycological effect it would have had on the japanese as a people and how it would have basicly made them fight in such a way that we almost would have had to exterminate them as a race just to stop them at that point
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I hate that!! One source says in between
2003 and 2006 -- 650 000 civilian casualties. It kept going like that until 2010. Then a few foot notes on recent events. I decided to cross
reference this on 
..give me a break..how is someone lured into attacking..if japan would of gave up their murderous expansion into china and the
dutch east indies the sanctions would of likley been dropped..i really hope your comment wasnt to be taken seriously
), and the main reason is really for national pride. I wouldn't blame
an American for wanting to defend their nation from being dubbed the "militarie most evile", it's only instinctual - and if you've already got a
kneejerk rebuttal then it's all good. That's only compounded by the fact they won in the Pacific, so they are writing the history. Same as Japan
denying Nanking if you ask me. 
