There were other massacres of civilians , e.g. the Kalagong massacre . In wartime Southeast Asia , the Overseas Chinese and European diaspora were special targets of Japanese abuse ; in the former case , motivated by Sinophobia vis-à-vis the historic expanse and influence of Chinese culture that did not exist with the Southeast Asian indigenes , and the latter , motivated by a racist Pan-Asianism and a desire to show former colonial subjects the impotence of their Western masters . The Japanese executed all the Malay Sultans on Kalimantan and wiped out the Malay elite in the Pontianak incidents . In the Jesselton Revolt , the Japanese slaughtered thousands of native civilians during the Japanese occupation of British Borneo and nearly wiped out the entire Suluk Muslim population of the coastal islands . During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines , when a Moro Muslim juramentado swordsman launched a suicide attack against the Japanese , the Japanese would massacre the man 's entire family or village
Pontianak incidents
Pontianak incidents
Japanese war crimes