How similar were the Third Reich and Japan's views on race?

Wendigo

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How similar were the Third Reich and Japan's views on race and the idea of the inferiority or "subhumanity" of races besides their own?

My opinion is that the Reich were far more extreme in their worldview as expressed in the ideas of "Life Unworthy of Life" and "Untermensch" which AFAIK didn't have a Japanese equivalent in terms of actual doctrine. The Reich literally published millions of pamphlets titled "The Subhuman":
Just as the night rises against the day, the light and dark are in eternal conflict. So too, is the subhuman the greatest enemy of the dominant species on earth, mankind. The subhuman is a biological creature, crafted by nature, which has hands, legs, eyes and mouth, even the semblance of a brain. Nevertheless, this terrible creature is only a partial human being.

Although it has features similar to a human,the subhuman is lower on the spiritual and psychological scale than any animal. Inside of this creature lies wild and unrestrained passions: an incessant need to destroy, filled with the most primitive desires, chaos and coldhearted villainy.

The Japanese seemed to be more into subjugation and enslavement of "inferior" races while the Reich wanted to either completely eliminate groups (Jews, disabled, Roma) or almost entirely eliminate them and keep the survivors as slaves (Slavs, Poles) for the crime of existing.
 
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Germans seemed more extremists. Both were very nationalists but Japanese hadn't such extermination plans as Germans.
 
The Japanese had it easier than the Germans to discriminate: they could identify, racially, who was Japanese and who wasn't. The Germans were making arbitrary decisions about racial purity based on bad science and prejudice in an attempt to justify their end game. The fact that the Germans were stealing blond, blue-eyed children from other countries and placing them with "Aryan" families shows just how silly their theories were.
 
Well, the Japanese were willing to rule "inferiors" indirectly via puppet states as opposed to the Germans who intended to enslave/kill all the "inferiors", so Nazi Germany was far more extreme than Imperial Japan.
 
The Japanese could just kill any non Japanese without too much thinking. The Nazified Germans had to use what was left their brains to carry out their actions.

During WW2 both were hideous butchers of their foes and conquered people.
 
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