It should also be pointed out that My Lai and Kent State were aberrations, the former punished, the latter unsuccessfully prosecuted, but the authorities did at

It should also be pointed out that My Lai and Kent State were aberrations, the former punished, the latter unsuccessfully prosecuted, but the authorities did attempt it. The mass murder of untermenschen in the Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere by every means known to man, the Bataan Death March and general savagery towards POWs, was Imperial Japanese policy.