The hatred for the Germans - and to a larger extent, the Japanese - comes from an understandable and rather objective reason.
The treatment. The Bushido code extended to a point where the opposite was inflicted on the enemy. Horrid treatment. Resulting in absolute hate for anything Japanese.
The Samurai Bushido Code (Japanese "way of the warrior", or bushido), was the warrior code of the samurai.
Samurai Warrior Code was a strict code that demanded:
loyalty
devotion
and honor to the death
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The Japanese had charge of over 70,000 prisoners of war, or POWs, which was quite a bit more than the 30,000 that the Japanese had planned for. This unexpected challenge caused the captors to become inhumane and brutal. Captives everywhere were bayoneted, shot, or slaughtered with samurai swords.
For entertainment during the march, the guards would push their prisoners off cliffs.
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