I have recently done some reading on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East as well as the individual participation of Japanese generals and officers in either sanctioning or initiating particularly brutal practices towards PoWs and civilians in occupied territories. However, I am curious to know whether this extreme harshness that the I.J.A. is largely remembered for today is unique to its conflicts from the 1930s onwards, or whether they had a history of poor treatment prisoners and subjects in previous wars.