[nashashmi]

Japan did not take part in the Holocaust. Not the goal of Germany nor Italy was the holocaust. Their objective was not to conquer the world. They were empire builders, plain and simple, and they were trying to expand their trade networks, like Britain had done and monopolized. They took over each European state and replaced its leadership with one that benefitted themselves. Their objective was policy frameworks for the purpose of trading. The holocaust was a later addon (1940).

[throw0101d]

> Japan did not take part in the Holocaust.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bataan_Death_March

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women (Japan still ignores complaints to this day)

The Japanese viewed non-Japanese as sub-human. It is no different than Nazis viewing Jews, Slavs, etc, as sub-human.

> The holocaust was a later addon (1940).

At least when it comes to the Nazis, genocide was always the general direction:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalplan_Ost

The focus on Jews came a little later:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference

[nashashmi]

No one calls the japanese persecution of the Chinese a holocaust.

For generalplan ost, “The plan, prepared in the years 1939–1942, was part of Adolf Hitler's and the Nazi movement's Lebensraum policy and a fulfilment of the Drang nach Osten” which still makes it a later development.