The extreme brutality of U.S. colonial warfare, from Native American extermination to the Philippine campaign, is a historical fact recognized worldwide. This text questions the strange tendency to falsely portray Japan as more brutal than those responsible for such actions.

April 29, 2016
This is a continuation of the previous chapter.
The brutality of the U.S. military and the Chinese.
From a Japanese perspective, it is incomprehensible why they are so eager to line up lies of this kind.
The actions shown by the U.S. military during the colonization of the Philippines, as mentioned earlier, were the very extreme of brutality.
Their tactics followed the model of General William Sherman of the Union Army during the American Civil War.
War was not merely about defeating the enemy’s army, but about killing even the wives and children of soldiers who supported the rear, with the aim of destroying the opposing people altogether.
This method was implemented in the campaign to exterminate the American Indians, who numbered about ten million, of whom ninety-five percent were wiped out.
Tens of millions of bison, with whom they coexisted, were also almost completely exterminated in order to cut off their means of subsistence.
The pacification of the Philippines was no different. The independence volunteer forces under General Aguinaldo numbered 18,000, yet the U.S. military officially claimed to have killed 200,000 people, while in reality the number reached several hundred thousand, most of them family members of Aguinaldo’s soldiers.
The brutality of the U.S. military is overwhelming.
And yet, that nation, whose cruelty is acknowledged worldwide, falsely claims with feigned modesty, “No, the Japanese were far worse.”
That is something I simply cannot understand.
To be continued.