"operation clean-up" was to get rid of Chinese volunteers who had fought against the Japanese, members of the China Relief Fund, who had raised money tirelessly to support China's war efforts against Japan and anyone else connected with anti-Japanese organisations.In practice, the sook ching was almost wholly arbitrary. Hapless male civilians, aged between 18 and 50, were rounded up and left to cower by the roadside, without shade from the pitiless elements and without water or food.Those who wrote in English, wore glasses, had tattoo marks or were not savvy enough to grovel immediately at the feet of the young Kempei, were bundled off for execution.http://ourstory.asia1.com.sg/neatstuff/tanss/ssjap.html
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They treat them absolutely horribly. With extreme cruelty, barbarity and savagery. The men were sometimes forced to work for the Japanese as slave laborers. People are force to bow to the Japanese soldiers or they will be beaten, some were killed because of not bowing. Children and womens are asked to stay at home. if they captured by the japanese, they might be raped and then killed, or forced to be "comfort women" (prostitutes) for the Japanese Army, in Army-operated brothels. At least they were not murdered immediately. Everybody else in Asia despises the Japanese to this day, not just for what they did, but for the fact that they won't admit it, and see nothing wrong in what they did. See the "Rape of Nanking", where Japanese troops were allowed free rein for six weeks after capturing that Chinese city. 300,000 Chinese civilians died in those next six weeks in Nanking..
They also used them to get info or as ransom. basically you didn't want to be a prisoner of theirs. most of the lower soldiers were following orders but they still brutal and hardly any apologized for what they did. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_did_the_Japanese_treat_the_people_they_conquered
The Chinese water torture. They wou a person's hands behind their back, and have them kneel before the torturer. The torturer would then proceed to place a single droplet of water upon the person's forehead. This would go on for several hours, maybe, and unsensed the tortured in a way of insanity
Victims were strapped down so that they could not move, and cold or warm water was then dripped slowly on to a small area of the body; usually the forehead. The forehead was found to be the most suitable point for this form of torture because of its sensitivity: prisoners could see each drop coming, and after long durations were gradually driven frantic as a perceived hollow would form in the center of the forehead http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_torture_methods_did_the_Japanese_use_on_prisoners_of_war .http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_water_torture
