But teaching real history would be a good start, you know, just so that they would know. No reason to feel bad, it was just a crazy time, and some nations just went a bit crazier than others.
That may be true, if one is referring to the major players in World War II, but what Mao and Stalin did against their own people is a different matter, and of a different order of magnitude.
My only point about Japan was that many in Asia would have liked, and would still like Japan to be more like Germany, in dealing more openly and honestly about its WWII actions; but, if those same Asian nations are just as concerned about the future, they need a China that can do the same thing about its own dictators.