A country, as a whole, is not an individual person and therefore can't "deserve" anything. What you're describing are acts by citizens of Imperial Japan (some d

A country, as a whole, is not an individual person and therefore can't "deserve" anything. What you're describing are acts by citizens of Imperial Japan (some decisions made high up or at the top, some made by individual units or soldiers) and killing of other people in the country. Some people who were responsible for atrocities were no doubt affected (either personally killed or people they loved were killed which of course would impact them emotionally) but for the most part you're talking about killing people who had no influence whatsoever on use of weapons in China or any other atrocity. Those people, without almost no exception whatsoever, had no say on what their citizenship was. The technical term for what you're describing is "collective punishment". Personally, I see it as a logical fallacy: failure to see that a country is not a single collective consciousness.