When I watched the movie "Paradise Road" about the women who survived death camp and formed a women's choir, I started reading the back story of some of the characters portrayed, and found the stories written by the nurses who were captured during the evacuation of Singapore
Amazing stuff, some humans are made of
Betty Jeffrey
http://www.angellpro.com.au/Jeffrey.htm
“we had a family friend who survived the Bataan death march, to this day my mother will not own a Japanese car”
I had 2 very good friend who were in Japanese POW camps, and to this day I will not own a Japanese car.
As opposed to the Germans, what made the Japanese camps so bad, is that the cruelty of the Japanese was so pervasive, in other words, cruelty was a directive from a high ranking Japanense official, rather, all of the Japanese, from the common soldier on up were monsters. The cruelty from the Japanese guards was not because they were “obeying orders”, the Japanese guards were sick.
I believe too many of the cruel torturing Japanese soldiers went back home to Japan after the war to the Japanese auto companies. In my own opinion, the Japanese cruelty was too deep, too pervasive, too ingrained in the Japanese culture.