According to Wikipedia written in Japanese, La Planète des singes in France, Planet of the Apes in U.S.A., Monkey Planet in U.K., and 猿の惑星 in Japan is said to be a story written based on its author Pierre Boulle's actual experience in French Indochina during the Greater East Asia War.
Before the outbreak of the war, Pierre Boulle was engaged in enslaving and exploiting the Asian people in French Indochina. However, he was captured by Imperial Japanese Forces and was sent to a camp where he thought he was thrown into a position of the Asian people he used to exploit.
Therefore, apes described in the movies are the Asian people. The movies depict his own interpretation (biased toward the Asian people) of how he was treated by Japanese soldiers at POW camp. They are nothing but a mere expression of hatred toward the Asian people, particularly Japan and her people who stood up for the emancipation of the Asian people.
ブールが仏領インドシナにて現地の有色人種を使役していたところ、同じ有色人種である日本人の率いる軍の捕虜となった「立場の逆転」の経験を基に描かれたとされる ーウィキペヂィア
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