Oh you're a far better person, and writer, than I am. I just rant.
Side note, one of Australia's biggest stories of it's nation making is the POW camps on the Burma railway in 1943. Then there is stories of the Japanese in Malaya at that time with A Town Like Alice (Nevil Shute) and more recently, Richard Flanagan's Narrow Road about a man haunted by memories of his love affair with his uncles wife and his expereinces on the railway as a prisoner. Both great books if you fancy.
I'm older than you, probably by a generation. I grew up in the shadow of WWII. The Japanese atrocities were very much a part of my consciousness. I try to let it go, but that's hard. I can't fathom how they could be so cruel, without reason. There was no profit to their cruelty. Just plain sadism.
There, I ranted.
When I'm trying to reach people who may not agree with me--even one person--I try to build my case slowly so that maybe reason will penetrate bias. Probably a futile effort, but I have to try to do something about what I see.
As for being a good writer: you are fluent, and expressive and effective. I am jealous, actually :)))
BTW: The books sound great. Thanks for the recommendation.