mass murders

I know the answer to this one!

At the Seattle Post Intelligencer (which is a stupid name for a newspaper . . . I mean really what does that even mean?), Gail Collins laments that nobody is talking about gun control on the presidential campaign trail:

I think it started during World War II, once the brutality of the Japanese army became known. It was the claim that, "they don't value life like we do." Not only the mass murders committed by the Imperial Japanese Army induced this observation, so did the mystifying willingness of Japanese commanders to send their troops to certain death in banzai charges. So did the willingness of ordinary Japanese soldiers to die as did their habit of committing suicide in often-gruesome ways rather than su