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I'm not. I'm acknowledging this stuff irrespective of their squealing, out of pure historical interest. I literally do not care what they think.

To which the correct response is "Aight, we weren't perfect in an imperfect time. Fuck off now."

I have a controversial opinion. Accept that in times gone by your country might have done fucked up stuff because the past is a fucked up place, and leave it at that. Treat it as a historical event instead of a moral condemnation.

Thing is, even the lowest Ashigaru peasant soldier of the 16th century might well balk at what the Imperial Japanese Army got up to in China. And these guys would have engaged in brutal medieval warfare and sacked multiple cities. So goodness knows what a Samurai who genuinely embraced Bushido...

So essentially, Sengoku Bushido is a moral framework that isn't always applicable to a situation, whilst 1930s Bushido is near religious dogma?

A few pages back, the subject of "Bushido" being a driving force in the scale of Japan's war crimes was brought up, although with the caveat that it was a deeply propagandised version of the feudal philosophy. So I must ask, what are the differences between the Bushido of the Sengoku era and...

Not to mention that, for Imperial Japan, mass murder was a means to an end and not the end goal in of itself. As vicious as they were, I don't think the Imperial Government ever considered a "final solution to the Korean/Chinese question." The driving force in Hitler's life was his maniacal...

The Japanese Empire was literally Vegeta.

So...Japan was redeemed by the power of friendship/kindness? Jesus Christ, real life really is an anime.

I suppose the words "live to fight another day" didn't mean too much to this lot? Even the Spartans, as big on a "beautiful death" as they were, knew there was a time and a place for it. Ultimately, didn't that doctrine really screw the Japanese over in modern warfare and lead to far higher...

Wars of conquest I can understand, but how they went about treating prisoners and non-combatants is just appalling and self defeating. I can only imagine this being caused by their honour code, of utter disgust and disdain for those who surrender and submit instead of taking their lives out of...

Ah, alright. The Japanese military were just vicious bastards in general then. Apologies for the ignorance, my knowledge is a bit foggy on what the Japanese Navy got up to. Was there any part of the Japanese war machine that weren't a gaggle of butchering thugs? What on earth made them that...

Speaking of Japanese war crimes, I have always wondered about the strikes against the Imperial Navy's record (Isoroku Yamamoto does not strike me as a butcher). Whilst I've no doubt they did some bad things as it was war, it seems they weren't quite as gung ho for "atrocities" like the Imperial...