<prompt> Translate the following text to EnglishIkiwa matibabu ya Wajapani kwa wafungwa wa vita wa Muungano huko Malaya yalikuwa ya kikatili sana, mtazamo kuelekea raia wa Asia ulikuwa na kutofautisha zaidi.  <response>: If Japanese treatment of Allied prisoners of war in Malaya was notoriously brutal, the attitude towards Asian civilians was more ambivalent. 