Read Flyboys.  The Japanese soldiers, especially the officers were acting in a way that could truly be described as evil.  One jaw dropping story involved an officer raping a woman, killing her, and then adding her to a stew that was fed to his soldiers.  Another mind blowing tid bit was about a Japanese commanding officer that dug up buried American airmen that had been decapitated so he could eat their livers.<p>While you&#x27;re at it read &quot;With the Old Breed&quot; by EB Sledge.  The Marines in the pacific had the joy of living in the mud next to their own excrement and the magot infested corpses of their best buddies for months at a time so that they could stop the kinds of atrocracies described in Flyboys.