The Allied combatants knew the kind of enemy they were fighting, where words such as "murderous", "cannibalistic", "sadistic", "vile" were merely signposts on the road to Hell that was endured by millions in chains in Asia during the Japanese Occupation.
A war of the Chrysanthemum Throne that was untrammelled by Law domestic, international or any of the practical Laws, Customs, and Usages of War - No Truth Speaking to Power. Even when it actions resulted in that Court of Last Resort: War, it refused to modify its behaviour or its armed forces behaviour: The Chrysanthemum Throne refused to abide by the Customs, Laws and Usages of War - rendering the even the Enforcement of the Laws of War by Act of Reprisal a nullity: The Chrysanthemum Throne was known to commit atrocities as Imperial policy, whether Nanking, Bataan, Singapore or HK, it meant that the ability of the custom and usage of Reprisal to restrain the Japanese Army and Navy was nil. The Chrysanthemum Throne did not care about the brutal murderous mistreatment of non-Japanese civilians and combatants taken prisoner by its forces, even when contrary to Japanese Law! It did not care. Secondly the Chrysanthemum Throne did not care if we slaughtered all the Japanese POWs or reduced Nihon to radioactive rubble. answers on a postcard for those who got that). The only thing that regulated it was the Law of Reprisal ("You gas London and we feed Berlin the Vegetarian Option". Originally posted by Stafford1068:Dear All,Ī number of things - firstly, there was no law forbidding aerial bombardment of combatants or non-combatants at the time - You could do it and it was legal.
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