There are books written, some of them just in chinese, that diagram the local homicides and rapes and mistreatment at the hands of the new colonizers. For the asians, they didn't say it was going to be nice, necessarily. And it's not going to be churchill earlier had been embarrassed and said that, you know, this was a shock that we we can't perform better whenthe russians are doing amazing feats against the germans. Well, anyway you slice it, to go from talking about churchill inordinately totalking about mc arthur like we're about to makes me feel we're completely embracing the great man theory of history. But
Japan's rising sun goes supernova and engulfs a huge area of Asia and the Pacific. A war without mercy begins to develop infusing the whole conflict with a savage vibe.