Why is Prime Minister Tojo and the Japanese ignored for their atrocities?

The Japanese were every bit as brutal and sadistic as the Nazis during WW2 (known as the 15 years war in Japan). Their Prime Minister, Tojo, utilized the Kenpetai (spelling?) as their gestapo, and even admired Germany's brutality in the war. The Japanese conducted experiments on it's own people and mainly the Chinese. Unit 731 was their experimental group. They forced sex between prisoners (Mostly CHinese) to see the effects of spreading venereal diseases. They then vivisected them while they were alive to see the gradual affects of the diseases. They released plagues on the chinese via infected insects and dropped them onto civilian populations. They froze body parts of prisoners while they were alive to test the effects of hypothermia and frostbite. They tested out weapons on live prisoners. Burned people alive, buried people alive, sewed people together. They were horrific in their torture.

They also had no concept of surrender, so they killed or mutilated most POW's. The Emperor of Japan, who gets a pass for some reason, was believed to give the order in Saipan, that every citizen should commit suicide because the Americans were going to do much worse to them.

Post War, Tojo attempted to kill himself but missed his heart. He was taken to a hospital, given a transfusion, and kept alive. His teeth were nearly rotted out of his head, and he needed an interpreter to understand what he was saying. American doctors gave him a set of dentures, but inscribed on them, in morse code "remember Pearl Harbor". The Americans utilized the data from the Japanese experiments on live subjects, to advance some of the knowledge about what we know today on things such as forstbite.

There's a really good podcast called Real Dictators and there are 3 episodes on Tojo. Very good production value.

Real Dictators

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