>>I also find it amusing that, of all the world, this would happen, and be publicized, in Japan. The country which has learned so much from the US... but is very sensitive to matters of war.
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>But still seems to have problems with Nanking, comfort girls, Bataan ... Another major component were Germans.

I wanted to emphasize the "country which has learned so much from the US", meaning exactly the mentality change that happened there after WWII... but then if you keep insisting on the past, you have just disqualified your own country: Wounded Knee and the rest of dealing with American Americans, and the whole South America. And don't blame it on the Brits and the French, unless you can explain how all the wrongs they did were undone by The Republic.

So, can we give the Japanese the benefit of the doubt and assume that the newer generations may have learned something?