Why did everyone hate the Japanese so much?

Why did everyone hate the Japanese so much?

they were yellow and nobody knew about anime.

Unit 731.

remember
Pearl Harbor

It was like the 9/11 of the 40s

surprised to see geist here. probably the most underrated OVA from the eighties.

Pretty much this. No matter how well you frame it for the Japanese they just attacked a defenseless "neutral" (leaning ally but still neutral) country out of the blue with the intent to win the war by destroying the entire US west fleet.

The intent was clearly bad and the Japs deserved to be demonized. I don't get why Japs complain that they were nuked and that is evil even if they started the fucking war.

This is a long lengthy question, but I'll try my best. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Japan was itching for war with China, China at the time was becoming increasingly Communist. Japan had favored Capitalism and fealt threatened due to possible subversion and Japan's small size compared to China. Japan at the time was getting their oil from America since Japan has no natural oil production. FDR was looking to set up trade relations with everso increasingly Communist China, so in response to the Japanese attack on the Chinese, FDR set an embargo on Japan's oil to show support for the Chinese' war effort. Japan had feared losing to China since their oil was running dry and soon they would not be able to support their own war effort, so Japan had invaded the East Indies for oil. Netherlands and Japan tensions rose due to Japan invading the Netherlands' territory. Japan had known America wouldn't let Japan wage war on China without America putting pressure on them, nor would they let them invade the East Indies. At which point Japan decides to attack America's pacific fleet, hoping at worst to slow down and at best for America to back down entirely. Japan's point of view in this was they would at least slow down America to grab enough oil to continue the war effort in China At the same time this wad all happening, Netherlands declared war on Japan and formed a pack with America, England, and Australia to take back the East Indies and crush the Japanese.

China was not becoming increasingly communist, if anything the Sino-Japanese war gave communism breathing room.

What? No its not, its incredibly overrated.

>China at the time was becoming increasingly Communist.
Japan literally attacked a RoC China when those niggers had the CCP in a corner.