> However I think you're grossly building up Germans as ignorant goodmen.
That's not at all what I'm saying, if you mean Germans during WW2. However if we're talking about today, it's certainly the case that Germans are unequivocal about their past while Japanese people as a whole are not.
However I think you're grossly building up Germans as ignorant goodmen.
While painting the Japanese as complicit evil doers.
The truth is the only reason Germans are ashamed of the past are due to 2 reasons:
1 the allies occupation of Germany spent lots of resources into exposing the crimes of the nazis.
And even then the Germans were proud of the nazis up until the 1980s.
And 2 every institution was torn down more or less after the nazis and rebuild from scratch with some having oversight built into it.
This did not happen in the occupation of japan.
And you can see the same "complicity" with the 3rd holocaust that was done in Croatia/ Bosnia against predominantly Serbs.
Hell even Spain has the issue of the public still being proud of the fascists.
Or lastly UK still has a sizable portion of its citizens that believes the Uk colonialism was ultimately good and righteous.