So, recently I have been listening to several audiobooks on the way to work.... and several from WWII timeframe. I am continually amazed to reminded of the incredible brutality of the Japanese in WWII and before.

Both WWII Japan and WWII Germany committed horrible War Crimes.... both slaughtered "undesirables" .... both killed hundreds of thousands ....

I think it's probably hard to say definitively that one was markedly worse than the other.

BUT .... That does not seem to be the general perception now....

Hilter is the symbol of evil .... but not Tojo?

There is an internet rule that eventually every discussion eventually ends in a Hilter reference ... but not a Tojo reference (of course THIS thread starts with a Hitler reference)

Nazi, Nazism, Brown Shirt ... all are standard symbols of hate and evil and war crimes ... but not the equivalent words for Japan (which honestly I don't even know what they are)

WHY?

Why is one brutal dictatorship **THE** symbol of human evil, and the other more or less forgotten?

BOTH are places we more or less occupied after war ... both were relatively quickly "Americanized" without a huge hassle. Both are now pretty solid allies.

I don't see the difference that drives the very different perception and use of the symbolism now...

Just wondering ....