Japanese and cruelty in world war 2..your thoughts?

The cruelty of the Japanese towards the occupants of the country in which they have invaded was pretty brutal and pretty much evil indeed. Though some of it may be exaggerated as not every japanese soldier was like this. As well as it is said that the more east you go the more cruel the people were in wars which is pretty much true in a ironic way if you look more into history. There were many cruel acts of war that are purely unexplainable, the Japanese themselves had their own way of displaying authority toward their occupied countries to avoid partisan rebellion. If you look into their history you can see that their tactics involve scaring the @%&# out of enemies, like they tried doing in World War 2. I cannot really give you much since this is a pretty touchy subject.