| > 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 |
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.