I was joking. I am guessing that Canada’s compulsory education’s coverage of the Third Reich is mediocre at best, and if that’s the case then there’s no way that its coverage of the Empire of Japan could be any better. It’s also still arguable that Chancellor Adolf Schicklgruber caused more deaths than Emperor Hirohito, but the estimates are variable.
Personally, I think that pinning a systemic mass murder on any particular individual is the wrong approach to take anyway. Aside from the inaccurate implication that the politician micromanaged every aspect of the massacre, it leaves a great deal of other contributors blameless through omission, and it overlooks the benefits that the ruling classes (or the petite‐bourgeoisie) get from the destruction.
I was joking. I am guessing that Canada’s compulsory education’s coverage of the Third Reich is mediocre at best, and if that’s the case then there’s no way that its coverage of the Empire of Japan could be any better. It’s also still arguable that Chancellor Adolf Schicklgruber caused more deaths than Emperor Hirohito, but the estimates are variable.
Personally, I think that pinning a systemic mass murder on any particular individual is the wrong approach to take anyway. Aside from the inaccurate implication that the politician micromanaged every aspect of the massacre, it leaves a great deal of other contributors blameless through omission, and it overlooks the benefits that the ruling classes (or the petite‐bourgeoisie) get from the destruction.