The Pacific War was rascist on both sides...which is why it turned into such a vicious no holds barred kind of war. Plus you had the Japanese cultural belief in "no surrender" which in turn meant that any one who surrendered was a "non-person" and in their minds didn't deserve anything other than poor treatment. I've even read where some of the Japanese that were captured were basiclly ignored by family and freinds after the war BECAUSE they surrendered instead of dying. Thank God the Bushido crap has pretty much died out over there...for now.
Of course the Russian Front was extrememly brutal as well.
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