What follows is an 1882 order issued by the Emperor of Japan

They weren't "wild," though. Fanatical and vicious, yes, but that doesn't contradict those rules. Quite the contrary.

>>2519096

>Rape, burning, pillaging
>strictly observe decorum

Pick one and only one

>>2519127
In Japan surrendering is shameful and killing yourself or fighting to the end is brave and honorable even if you lose.

So when a bunch of people surrendered to them they were offended and decided to give them the shame they deserved or whatever.

In their minds the surrendering enemy had breached decorum.

>>2519196

The enemy never took an oath to the Emperor or the five "shoulds", why would the believe Chinese or Americans would follow Japanese orders?

Propoganda. It's same reason the Germans were able to massacre Jews. The propoganda was incredibly effective at portraying these people as inferior barbarians. They didn't need much justification besides "Jews aren't people" or "Chinese aren't people".

>>2519074
Are you retarded? Actually, don't even bother answering that.

>observing out-group altruism without a political motive

>>2519304

>Not raping someone requires a considerable amount of altruism

>>2519215
Somewhat this.
It's a tribal ideology. You can find it in the bible. The idea is only to consider your tribesmen as humans. All outsiders deserve no respect and laws don't apply.

>>2519215

For the Germans it was less propaganda and more "Stanford Prison Experiment" effect

People, when put in a position of authority (but ordered to do evil by a greater authority) will conduct evil despite any personal sense of morals.

Most concentration camp workers understood what they were doing was wrong and understood that the jews were human.

>>2519074
They didn't care about morals, what is so difficult to understand. People aren't inherently good, Rousseau a shit.

>>2519211
Because their traditions and thinking went deeper than a single instance of formal orders and was part of their culture for centuries.

>>2520807
>they don't care about judeo-christian morals

Fixed that for you.

>>2519196
What? Rape slaughter and looting was illegal in Japanese military law. Nominally of course

>>2519074
You seem to be under the impression that English and Japanese are the same.

What these words mean in English does not have the connotations that they would in Japanese.

The Japanese believed themselves to be god-given ubermensch and surrounding peoples to be barbarians.

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>>2521107

> believed themselves to be god-given ubermensch and surrounding peoples to be barbarians.

like all empires back then,
we are the most gifted nation and the rest are just scums/slaves/barbarians/savages/evil/inferior/whatever the fuck they want to call it.

all share the same mindset, nothing new under the sun

>>2521123

all empires have this mindset that they are the most super powerful thing that there is, and no one can stop them, but their pride and confidence is what makes all empire to fall.

>>2520958
>Judeo

Stop this.

>>2521080

Raping a Chinese woman was not a crime because only Japanese women had the right to consent