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by throw0101d 56 days ago
> 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

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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.