In the WWII Japanese theater, the Chinese living in Malaysia particularly suffered from the Japanese occupation, at least 37,000 of them being executed.
From the invasion of China in 1937 to the end of World War II, the Japanese military regime murdered near 3,000,000 to over 10,000,000 people, most probably almost 6,000,000 Chinese, Indonesians, Koreans, Filipinos, and Indochinese, among others, including Western prisoners of war.—- Hawaii Education Website