[puroresu]

People fail to understand that national or racial guilt is something confined almost entirely to white Western nations. Even very educated, intelligent, and cultured nations such as Japan have large numbers of people (even elected officials) who deny past atrocities. And the rest of the population is mostly of the opinion that even if things like Bataan and Nanking did occur (which they did) they’re old history and we should just forget about it.

It’s totally unlike the West, where we wallow in our past sins, real and in many cases imagined.

I love Japan and the Japanese people. But these crimes did occur and they should admit to it.

[Little Ray]

I personally think that leaving the atrocities in the past is a healthy mindset. There are more important thing to do that wallow in one’s sins.
However, denying them, and canonizing the perpetrators, is just plain evil.