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General Tojo Part 2: Terror in China

Real Dictators

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The Three Auls Policy: A History of Japan and China

The Three Auls policy supposedly killed up to 3 million people, but if you look at the total number of deaths in all factors caused by Japan and China in the Second World War, the figure could easily be between 20 and 30 million. The Japanese army did it with a brutality which was on a completely different quantum to anything that the British did or the Americans did. In so doing, they effectively caused the death of many millions of people. America will never accept a Japanese Empire. That would mean the US relinquishing control over the Pacific. Not everyone in Japan agrees. Many in the political system argue that the sooner the war comes, the better. Because the longer we wait, the more

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