Its not true that they don't have guilt over ww2 or that they don't acknowledge it. Its more that they don't agree with the specifics of it. . it would be more like if Germany claimed "no we didn't kill 6 million jews we only killed 2 million". Japan doesn't deny outright they just argue about the specifics but this is counted as "denying " to the woke.
Not sure how its "romanticizing " to say the facts that the military class ruled for nearly a thousand years. i didn't say that their leadership was necessarily good(though i do think being ruled by a military class is better than being ruled by merchants and bankers like today) but i do say that Japan was a militaristic country for a large junk of their history and them completely rejecting this is completely backwards and rejecting a large junk of what their heritage is