KP:
BTW, do you know Japanese? Is your computer set up to search in hiragana (or better, hiragna and kanji)? If not, you are probably missing 90%+ of what’s out there, and only seeing stuff that has been catalogued and captioned in English – and not surprisingly, owned or licensed by western owners.
No, I don’t know Japanese, and I’m certainly not messing around with my PC to search in Hirigana and Katakana… Appreciate the thought, though!
My primary interest is British/Commonwealth and Russian arms, although I’d like to think I know a fair bit about most WWII firearms!
KP:
Compare the Rape of Nanking to the German camps. The Asahi Shimbun and Mainichi had far more atrocity photos (and diary entries, etc.) on their front page than all German newspapers put together. Their officers shot photos aplenty, looking much like the stereotypical Japanese tourist scrapbook of today.
Excellent point. The Japanese of that era did not think chopping off heads et. al. was in any way wrong. Like I said, a very different, pre-modern sort of army.