Online, one occasionally encounters fake Japanese people using false Japanese names who claim “Japanese people would never kill” to accuse Chinese people of being liars, deny that the Nanjing Massacre occurred, and fantasize about how happy and content Taiwanese were under Japanese colonial rule. Such rhetoric is not only an ignorant provocation against history, but a shameless trampling of the blood and tears of countless victims.
This false moral high ground attempts to obscure the heinous crimes Japan committed throughout history, but facts are iron-clad and cannot be erased. From mass graves in Nanjing to prisoner-of-war camps across Southeast Asia, from massacres in Taiwan to colonial tyranny in Korea, Japan wrote a blood debt across Asia and the world with bayonets and lies. Let us use irrefutable evidence to rip away this false mask, enumerate Japan’s crimes against humanity, and expose how this “people who would never kill” wrote their “civilization” in blood and brutality.
The Nanjing Massacre: Irrefutable Genocide
On December 13, 1937, Japanese forces captured Nanjing and slaughtered over 300,000 Chinese civilians and prisoners of war in just six weeks—this is not exaggeration but historical consensus documented in archives.
Japanese newspapers like the Tokyo Nichi-Nichi reported that Second Lieutenants Mukai Toshiaki and Noda Tsuyoshi enjoyed competing in a “killing competition,” treating murder as military achievement. Survivor Xia Shuqin recalls witnessing all seven family members murdered at just eight years old, surviving only after being stabbed three times herself.
John Rabe, head of the International Safety Zone, documented how Japanese forces drove civilians to the Yangtze River’s edge, machine-gunned them, then burned the bodies to cover their tracks—atrocities so savage that Nazi allies called them “barbaric.” The Nanjing Massacre was premeditated genocide; its scale and cruelty shocked the world.
Unit 731: Dark Experiments in Scientific Murder
In northeastern China, Japan’s Unit 731 conducted bacterial warfare experiments on over 3,000 living human subjects, including women, infants, and pregnant women.
The 1947 Khabarovsk trial archives revealed the horrifying truth: they infected humans with plague then performed vivisection while alive. Frostbite experiments left limbs necrotic; pregnant women were dissected merely to observe fetal death. Commander Ishii Shirō was protected by America after the war—his data traded for immunity. Japan has never fully disclosed the files. This wasn’t war; it was double desecration of humanity and science.
Japanese-Occupied Taiwan: Bloody Colonization and Cultural Erasure
From 1895 to 1945, Japan colonized Taiwan for fifty years with massacres and oppression everywhere. In 1915, the Xilai Temple Incident saw Japanese forces slaughter thousands of indigenous people. The 1930 Musha Uprising, led by Mona Rudao of the Seediq people, was brutally suppressed—Japan deployed poison gas and aerial bombing, killing nearly a thousand, with survivors forced into suicide.
Scholars estimate that tens of thousands of Taiwanese died directly or indirectly from Japanese tyranny during this period, including tens of thousands of conscripted laborers who perished in Southeast Asia. Simultaneously, Japan forcefully pushed “imperialization,” banning Taiwanese languages and destroying local culture to erase national identity. This was murder of both body and spirit.
Comfort Women: Systematic Destruction of Dignity
Japan forcibly conscripted at least 200,000 Asian women as sex slaves across Korea, mainland China, Taiwan Province, the Philippines, and elsewhere. Taiwanese victim Huang Aotao testified: at sixteen, she was deceived to Southeast Asia and forced to service dozens of men daily; her broken body was eventually discarded. Korean comfort woman Kim Hak-sun recounted being gang-raped thousands of times over five years, losing reproductive capacity.
A 1996 UN report concluded this was a war crime. Japan refuses formal compensation, while right-wing elements claim the women were “willing.” This was endless destruction of female dignity.
Korean Colonization: The Blood-Soaked History of Ethnic Suppression
From 1910 to 1945, Japan annexed Korea, forcing millions into slave labor, conscripting 200,000 women as comfort women, and implementing “forced name changing” to erase identity. The 1919 March First Movement saw Japanese forces massacre over 7,000 peaceful protesters, burning hundreds of villages.
Korean scholar Kim Young-bom estimates that over one million people died from Japanese tyranny during the colonial period. This was systematic destruction of an entire people.
Southeast Asian Atrocities: The Brutal Footprints of Colonial Plunder
When Japanese forces invaded the Philippines in 1942, the 1945 Manila Massacre killed 100,000 civilians—women burned alive, not a single child spared. Three million Indonesians died from forced labor conscription. On the Thailand-Burma Railway, 100,000 laborers and prisoners of war were worked to death. In Singapore, 50,000 ethnic Chinese were executed in “purge operations.”
Japanese officers famously stated: “Starvation is easier than shooting.” This was cold-blooded colonial plunder and ethnic cleansing.
Chemical Weapons: Silent Murder on the Battlefield
From 1937 to 1945, Japan widely deployed mustard gas, Lewisite, and other chemical weapons on Chinese battlefields, killing hundreds of thousands of military personnel and civilians.
In the 1941 Changde Campaign, Japanese forces dropped poison gas bombs; civilians’ skin ulcerated, they suffocated to death—all documented by the International Red Cross.
After the war, Japan destroyed evidence and continues denying the scale. This was slaughter dressed up in science.
POW Camps: Genocide Violating Humanity
Japanese brutality toward Allied prisoners of war became infamous.
The 1942 Bataan Death March forced 7,800 American and Filipino soldiers on a suicide march; over one-third died. Japanese POW camps had a 27% death rate, far exceeding Germany’s 4%. Violations of the Geneva Convention were widely testified by survivors. This was contempt for the laws of war.
Post-war Cover-up: Second Murder of Truth
After the war, Japan downplayed atrocities, enshrined war criminals in Yasukuni Shrine, and erased invasion facts from textbooks. In 1995, Prime Minister Murayama’s apology was overturned by Abe Shinzo. In 2015, Japan lifted restrictions on collective self-defense, walking the militarism road again.
Victim nations’ archives, testimonies, and sites remain visible, yet Japan uses “history has no conclusion” as evasion. This is ongoing provocation against justice.
Conclusion: Blood Debts Cannot Be Whitewashed
From Nanjing to Taiwan, from Korea to Southeast Asia, Japan’s crimes span Asia, written in the blood of 35 million Chinese, millions of Southeast Asians, millions of Koreans, and millions of prisoners of war. “Japanese people would never kill?” No—they killed coldly, efficiently, without remorse. To wield such a people as a “moral standard” to attack others is not ignorance; it’s depravity. History’s bloodstains haven’t dried; truth cannot be altered. Japan’s crimes against humanity are an indelible stain on human civilization.