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I've commented on this before. It's interesting, but it's absolutely a net positive, their attitude. No matter how you feel about WW2, on the scale of "Nazis were totally based" to "War crimes are bad and war is Hell, and Nazis committed a bunch of atrocities" (both are true to some extent, in my opinion; both sides committed atrocities, and both sides had some good points as well)...the Japanese response of "fuck it, who cares," has been shown to be much healthier than the German response of repression and denial.
Germany with all their guilt and clamp down on free expression is more likely to go genocidal again than the Japanese are. For all the talk of "never again," and "we must learn from history," they're going down the path of being the assholes yet again.
You can't sacrifice your own culture over guilt for outsiders. That's how you get into this mess in the first place. First rule of government is, it has to be in the benefit of the nation's people. Japan is, while not perfect by any means, more in line with that than Germany is.
Japan did terrible shit, but continuing to try and be Japanese was the correct answer, as opposed to what the remnants of Germany did.
Again, don't care if you anyone loves or hates the Nazis; Japan's take is culturally healthier and, even if it may look less "moral" in the short term, will likely have better and more moral results in the long term anyway. Pro tip: Don't destroy your own culture, society, and civilization. Even if you commit evil at one point.
I agree entirely. I think at a time much closer to the incidents you could make claim that the full denial was the wrong way, when the literal victims could look into the eyes of the literal perpetrators. That's something you can put the "bad men" on trial for and decide if you think they deserve to be punished for their actions by a jury of their peers or superior officers in the military (in theory, we know it wouldn't be so clean).
But now its meaningless guilt slinging to be exploited for manipulation. And anyone trying to do anything on that branch is not to be trusted in their intentions.
And the current trajectory of both nations is, as you said, showing the Jap way to be far superior in terms of end result. Maybe our bloodlust for justice and morality might want some of those aforementioned literal perpetrators to suffer, but if the cost of that is the Germany of today then it is not worth it.