The japanese modeled themselves after the europeans. What the japanese did was nothing compared to what happened during the boxer rebellion. British and french soldiers who hunt down pregnant chinese whores and then gamble on the sex of the fetus and cut open the china whore's belly to settle the bet.
That's what the poster claims.
I'm intrigued in knowing whether there's any truth to this claim or similar act that could inspire such stories. Tried googling but nothing comes up about this practice.
Thank you for any answer in advance!
Edit: should add the OP refers to events happening during Boxer Rebellion era.
I'm sad to see what that person posted, belittling the rape of Nanjing. Its true its been used heavily for propaganda, but that does not change the fact that it did happened and was a tremendous atrocity(that Japan have apologized for several times, although the Chinese and Japanese disagree about the numbers killed).
I can not remember in my lecture any of my professors saying anything about such a thing happening, they did however say that the western powers(mainly French, British and German) did take revenge on the Chinese population when they stepped inn to quell the Boxer Rebellion who had an extreme hatred against Christianity and most things that where western.
The closest thing I found about what could have inspired such a story was about what happened in a town near Beijing where 500 young and women committed suicide because they had been raped by foreign soldiers or feared that they would be. Inn that same book where I found this, I also found a quote from a British journalist George Lynch about his reaction too the plundering and raping of the foreign soldiers.
There are things that I must not write, and that may not be printed in England, which would seem to show that this Western civilization of ours is merely a veneer over savagery
Source
Restless Emire - China and the World Since 1750 by Odd Arne Westad.