Captured Chinese Soldiers beg for their lives to a South Korean Soldier thinking that they are going to be executed, Korea 1951.

During the late Meiji Era, Japan tried to put on a facade as a "civilized imperial power" of sorts. It was noted that they treated Russian prisoners exceptionally well in 1905. But by all accounts, their treatment of Chinese and Korean prisoners and civilians during the Sino Japanese War of 1895 were nothing short of barbaric.

In fairness, that's not at all inconsistent with the other "civilised imperial powers" of the time. In general they tended to extend much better treatment towards one another in war than they did to unruly colonial subjects.

During apartheid in South Africa, Japanese were officially considered white while Chinese were considered as black.

My late wife was Korean. She grew up with her mother and grandmother. Her grandfather was kidnapped (volunteered) by the Japanese to fight in WWII. When they led him away from her grandmother was the last time anyone from her family saw him alive.

My wife's grandmother died in the mid-1990's. No one ever found out what happened to her husband. The Japanese never admitted that he was taken, that he left South Korea, or that he ever left his village. He just... disappeared.

Japan is roughly the size of Montana with virtually no natural resources. Their strength was their people and their fanatical devotion to their country. World Domination through sheer, brutal willpower. Amazing and horrifying at the same time.

Japan never had the potential for world domination.

And it's not even an "in hindsight" thing, either. From the outset, any Japanese officer who wasn't a fossil or a yes-man could see that the IJN could not win a prolonged war against the American navy, and their best hope was to hit hard, hit fast, and broker a favorable peace while the other powers were still reeling.

The problem is that the Japanese populace wanted war, and a good deal of the brass wanted war. But there was never really much hope for anything beyond a rapid landgrab followed by hunkering down and trying to force a peace.[1]

Interestingly enough, when you do apply hindsight, an extended war in the Pacific plummets from 'Very Difficult' to 'Impossible'. Japan simply could not match the manufacturing of the United States, and not at an insignificant level. The Japanese were regularly stunned at how quickly the Americans could repair and rebuild their fleet.[2]

Furthermore, the longer the war dragged on, the more Japanese sailors and pilots got killed. This is true for any fighting force, but the reason it is especially meaningful for Japan is their poor management (again, in hindsight) of experienced personnel. The Japanese tended to be very rigid with crew management, and kept veteran pilots, for example, in combat until either the end of either their lives or the war. The Americans, in contrast, rotated their crews out, and generally treated their soldiers as replaceable parts in a generic system. This allowed them to use experienced pilots to train new pilots, and to generally preserve hard-won knowledge. The Japanese had an early advantage due to the experiences of the Sino-Japanese War, but those veterans would have been significantly fewer in number after years of fighting.

There are several other points (competition for resources and infighting between the IJA and IJN, reduced effect of wargames and simulations due to careerism, a focus on battleships and cruisers rather than carriers, and the already-mentioned desperate need to make up for a lack of resources) that illustrate the same point, but overall the idea that Japan could pose any prolonged threat outside of it's immediate area given a sustained war effort by the Allies is one that isn't really accurate. They could most certainly mount an admirable resistance for a very long time, but not much more.

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