Well damn, color me informed. I guess when you live in a "modern" and "civilized" country where the cops are still allowed to do indulge whatever sick shit they want at will with no consequences, it's easy to assume that past times in other places would be the same. Turns out it's more projection from the worst nation on Earth., and I appreciate you taking the time to dispel it. Also, speaking of projection:

They used this claim to present Japanese people as the Ur fascist other, both senseless, remorseless killers who thought nothing of murdering their own countrymen for sport, and cowardly weaklings who would brook any injustice so long as their god Emperor demanded it.

This is so many of us Americans lmao