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The white Westerners were rich, arrogant colonists who subjugated the native people while they reaped the riches and lived lavishly above the poor.  Japanese soldiers read how �money squeezed from the blood of Asians maintains these small white minorities in their luxurious mode of life.�  It was Japan�s duty to free them from the grip of colonialism.  Not only was the West enslaving other nations and stealing their wealth, but they were doing it right in Japan�s backyard to their own fellow Asians.