is it true that the japanese killed the chinese during the holocaust?

Question

i heard that during the same time, the japanese thought they were better than the chinese, so they went over to china n killed n tortured them. but i never learned that in school or nothin, so i was wondering if it was true.

Answer 1

They aren't close friends. Both countries are suspicious of each other and rightfully so.

Japan was closed off from global trade for centuries. When it finally opened up in the mid 1800s, it attacked several of the neighboring lands (Okinawa, Korea, China). The country was ruled by shogunates, lords who retained their own armies and their own citizens. Though the Emperor was head of the land, shoguns ruled their own lands and fought against other landowners and shoguns that threatened them. They were a very warlike culture.

Yes, the Japanese invaded and murdered millions of Chinese, often for no other reason but that they were not Japanese. Women were raped and children killed. Japanese textbooks will not tell you this, it's a part of history they want the rest of the world to forget.

Answer 2

Well - they did round up Chinese in a manner to annihillate all Chinese people - but they did commit war crimes and killled many Chinese. I have no idea why you weren't taught that in school. I have never seen a history textbook that doesn't mention that - is it possible you just didn't read it? What happened to Jews, Gypsies and others during the Holocaust tend to keep teenagers attention better. It might just be at the time you didn't care enough.

Good Luck!!!

Answer 3

The term "holocaust" is usually applied only to the Nazi attempt to wipe out all Jews and Gypsies in Europe. Nonetheless it is true that the Japanese were deeply contemptuous of all other nationalities. As their major effort was in China, it was the Chinese who suffered most from this attitude. I don't think, however, that they can reasonably be accused of trying to exterminate all Chinese.

Answer 4

Like the Germans, the Japanese engaged in medical experiments on unwilling Chinese participants after the seizure of Manchuria/Manchuko by Unit 731. I originally read about these experiments in a zine entitled Guinea Pig Zero, but there are other sources about these atrocities.

Answer 5

Yes, but the Holocaust only refers to the Jews being killed by Germans. Japanese wweree very cruel to the Chinese.

Answer 6

the germans are associted with the "Holocaust" but the Japanese slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Chinese and Filipinos in WWII.There is a huge cemetray in Manila for the Americans who died. Read about the Bataan death March.

Answer 7

Read "The Rape of Nanking" by Iris Chang. It not only documents atrocities committed by the Japanese, but also examines the militaristic culture of Japan that led to such brutality. She also discusses the attempts to deny it ever happened. A very good book.

Answer 8

the japnaese were killing the chinese in 1933 in when they invaded manchuria long before the nazis started to kill the jews around 1938.

Answer 9

Yes it was the German who killed the Jews. We will have a speaker about it in one week. Japanese and Chinese don't fight much.

Answer 10

See for yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre
http://www.tribo.org/nanking/