Japanese leaders are returning to Yasukuni as a matter of course now and I have seen some really creepy and over-romanticized Japanese war movies come out.
Rearming is fine, as long as the Japanese know the truth about prior atrocities and face up to them.
The anime film “Grave of the Fireflies” should be mandatory viewing in schools, show them what war is like back on the home front and let them try to romanticize that.
Japanese education is good, and I agree that they gloss over the truth at a minimum—adressing sins of fathers is not an Asian strong point.
However barbarism is not relegated to Asians, and modern sensibilities will not suffice to win against the current generation of barbarians. If the West cannot find the will to win, then the barbarians of the world will fight it out among themselves. Judeo-Christian values will be supplanted by the law of the jungle and our progeny will face extinction or slavery. I see no hope outside of Christ, and I see little indication that we will return to the God whom our forefathers worshiped.