Okay, then how about 99% of the Japanese soldiers were bad?
I had a fascination with WW2. I'm against war itself (we should have never been in Iraq, we basically attacked a country unprovoked and got the world to hate us even more, but I digress), but WW2 was interesting because of it's massive scale. I mean you had freakin' Polynesian Maoris from New Zealand fighting against German paratroopers in Italy, for Christ's sake! Just mind boggling stuff....
But anyway, in everything I've read about WW2, I've never read a single kind word about the Japanese soldiers in WW2. It is all brutality, brutality, brutality, brutality, brutaliyt, brutality, brutality, brutality, brutality, brutality, brutality, brutality, and also.....brutality. And that is from all nationalities who crossed their path, including American POWs who told incredible stories about the abuse they faced. And let's not start about the 'comfort women' that the japanese forced into slavery. I could go on and on and on.
The japanese soldiers in WW2 were quite possibly the worst soldiers in the entire history of the whole damned world!
And again, it was because they were beaten by their own officers, which is the whole point of this thread--the cycle of violence. Remember, as I mentioned before, it was the History Channel that was showing a program of the similarities between Stalin and Hitler, which contributed to their brutality. I thought it was a fascinating study of the cycle of violence.
And saying 99%, hell, even 100% of the japanese soldiers were evil, isn't an exaggeration to me. Do you remember when Clint Eastwood's movie, 'Letters from Iwo Jima' came out to theaters, it had some criticism that he was trying to create some sympathy for the Japanese soldiers, and people were saying that there should be no sympathy for the japanese soldiers, because they got what they deserved in the end--death.