  ==Someone keeps deleting this== State racism]] played a role in Nazi Germany, fascist regimes in Europe, and in the first part of Japan's Showa period, before World War II. These governments advocated and implemented policies that were racist, xenophobic, and often genocidal. Even if the main purpose of shôwa Japan policies were not the genocide of other populations, degrading terms such as as kichibu (beast) were frequently used by the Japanese government and military to describe neighbors such as the Chinese, Koreans ans Phillipines — and the policies implemented caused the deaths of millions of civilians.   Now i dont know much about this but i dont think it should be included without refernces 