I know what the IJA did thank you very much.
Mass Rape yes, deplorable acts committed against the local population also yes, use of Chinese civilians as guinea pigs for Japanese biological experiments is another yes. Now please point out to me where the IJA was conducting a systematic organized effort to wipe out the Chinese people.
The Japanese routinely conducted systematic exterminations. During Operation Sanko (better knows as the "Three Alls" campaign), for instance, the population of the target region was reduced from 44 million to 25 million through a policy of mass-deportation, starvation, and outright murder [Roberts, "World War II: the Essential Reference Guide" p. 152]. In the 1990s, Japanese historian Mitsuyoshi Himeta put the actual body count at "more than 2.7 million." While Operation Sanko was going on in north China, another quarter-million were killed in Zhejiang and Jiangxi provinces as a reprisal for the Doolittle Raid, many of whom died from chemical attacks.
An example of the Japanese MO:
"Father Wendelin Dunker observed the result of a Japanese attack on the town of Ihwang:
“They shot any man, woman, child, cow, hog, or just about anything that moved, They raped any woman from the ages of 10 – 65, and before burning the town they thoroughly looted it.”
He continued, writing in his unpublished memoir, “None of the humans shot were buried either, but were left to lay on the ground to rot, along with the hogs and cows.”
The Japanese marched into the walled city of Nancheng at dawn on the morning of June 11, beginning a reign of terror so horrendous that missionaries would later dub it “the Rape of Nancheng.” Soldiers rounded up 800 women and herded them into a storehouse outside the east gate. “For one month the Japanese remained in Nancheng, roaming the rubble-filled streets in loin clothes much of the time, drunk a good part of the time and always on the lookout for women,” wrote the Reverend Frederick McGuire. “The women and children who did not escape from Nancheng will long remember the Japanese—the women and girls because they were raped time after time by Japan’s imperial troops and are now ravaged by venereal disease, the children because they mourn their fathers who were slain in cold blood for the sake of the ‘new order’ in East Asia.”
At the end of the occupation, Japanese forces systematically destroyed the city of 50,000 residents. Teams stripped Nancheng of all radios, while others looted the hospitals of drugs and surgical instruments. Engineers not only wrecked the electrical plant but pulled up the railroad lines, shipping the iron out. A special incendiary squad started its operation on July 7 in the city’s southern section. “This planned burning was carried on for three days,” one Chinese newspaper reported, “and the city of Nancheng became charred earth.”
Over the summer, the Japanese laid waste to some 20,000 square miles. They looted towns and villages, then stole honey and scattered beehives. Soldiers devoured, drove away, or simply slaughtered thousands of oxen, pigs, and other farm animals; some wrecked vital irrigation systems and set crops on fire. They destroyed bridges, roads, and airfields.“Like a swarm of locusts, they left behind nothing but destruction and chaos,” Dunker wrote."
Of course, both Sanko and the Zhejiang-Jiangxi expedition were hardly unique and had been preceded by several similar "annihilation campaigns" in the late 1930s/early 40s, all personally sanctioned by Hirohito. The biological warfare effort, moreover, also seemed to have no clear objective other than to inflict terror and kill large numbers of people - Peter Li puts the total from 748,000 to 2,000,000.
Therefore, while Japan never actually aimed to wipe out 'the Chinese race,' practically speaking their agenda was the destruction of China as a nation and the deportation or mass murder of huge segments of its people, similar to Nazi visions for Poland and Russia.
