I know, I know! Some people here want to lionize the 3rd Reich because they opposed Jews who dominate most of the world today. Uhmazing. But, like it or not, their ally the Japanese are much like the Nazis and are a great example of unrestrained Nazi forces.
Germans are known for being hyper disciplined and have exceptional engineering skills, boarding on neurotic, and the same is true for the Japanese. Nazi Germany convinced themselves they were of a special superior race, and so did the Imperial Japanese.
And how did the Imperial Japanese act? Were they merely trying to act in self defense invading countries all across Asia? And how did they treat the people they conquered? Were they being good benevolent Ubermench, or were they treating other human beings like dogs to be slaughtered and used?
So please, spare me the "Aryans are the exception" bs. We have examples of what the Nazi mindset leads to (besides some of the real evils Nazis did, even if the gas chambers were a lie or exaggeration).
What are you even talking about?
The Japanese were religious fanatics who beleived they followed the will of a living God. They literally thought it was impossible for them to lose and that their enemies weren't even human. They also have hundreds of years of Bushido culture that shaped their mindset such that sacrificing their lives for their Lord was the highest ambition, and that personal honour trumped human life.
The Japanese government sure didn't do anything to help their own people, as Hitler did when he super-charged the German economy. Rather, the people were simply expected to sacrifice for the Emperor. Further, Japan was under no real threat, but was acting from a place of pure expansionism, again, much different from Germany's situation.
About the only thing the two have in common is nationalism (and even then, drawing from ver different places) and fighting Russia. If Japan was physically located in Europe, they would have been rivals, if not enemies.
You could just as easily argue the "Britain were the real Nazis" because they bombed Dresden, starved out the German people towards the end of the war, clandestinely murdered the Polish leadership, and used nationalist sentiment to keep their people together during the Blitz.
Except that religion was specifically concocted as a war propaganda tool. Its sole existence is to prop up the cult of personality of the emperor, to promote hive-mind mentality and to justify sacrifice of the individual to the state. It's exactly what the North Korean "religion" is about. Calling them religious fanatics is disingenuous - they were as religious as the communists and the nazis. It's an astro-turf pseudo-religious militarist cult.
It sounds a lot like Aryanism.
It does and I mentioned that.