Oh yes. The only other city that saw more destruction than Manila was Warsaw. And yes, the rapes and killings in Manila were even worse than in Nanking, considering all this happened in the middle of active combat.
More complicated than that, but we thought he had something to do with it then.
So… are the Fillipino-Japanese relations strained as much the Sino-Japanese relations or the Korean (yes, both koreas)-Japanese relations?
Not so. The Philippines is a pretty pro-Japanese nation now.
Huh? Why so? It’s because of the PRC and the Spratly Islands,isn’t it?
Partly that, and also reparations from Japan starting in the '50s, efforts by both nations in restoring diplomatic nations and an Imperial apology in 1986, among other things.
Be interesting to see who gets blamed for this. No hindsight of course.