What doesnt help is that, while japan's atrocities were arguably greater than nazi germany's, they were never shamed for it while occuped by the americans and never gained the stigma germans have now about hyper-nationalism. Apparantly japan consider thier ancestors sacred and shaming them would have made the american occupation more difficult.
Because of this the japanese, thier politicians and media in particular, have a disconserting habit of glossing over thier war atrocities, or even glorifying it, which understandably does little good for thier post war relations.
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