asterism
Congress != Progress
I heard this morning that the Japanese don't even teach what happened in WW2 in school so most of their citizens don't know what atrocities they committed.
Very true. I lived in Tokyo as a toddler and our family kept in touch with some of the neighbors over the years. I get together with a few of the old neighbors' kids and grandkids when they visit Disney. We've had quite a few spirited conversations around the fire pit about their perception of "American Imperialism" and how the US forces Japan to stay weak because they don't want to make China and Korea mad.
Everyone under 50 says they don't believe that Japan would never surrender in WWII, they think Japan was just defending themselves against the US conquering the Pacific, and they deny the alliance with Nazi Germany. I asked them if they've talked to their parents and grandparents about this and the answer is universal: "they don't talk about the war."
The younger ones have a sort of entitled attitude about honor and dignity claiming to be descendants of the Samurai warriors. They don't understand that the discipline was brought through training and not birthright. They don't have any history of the atrocities practiced by the Samurai (the reason for disbanding them in the first place). They deny that Japan ever had slaves in modern times, especially every Korean they could find during WWII.