While I’m sure that atrocities were committed during this time I also believe that very few people are alive today in Japan that had anything directly to do with it. This is kind of like asking someone living in Alabama today to apologize for slavery in the Antebellum South. At some point you just need to remember the past but move on.
I more or less agree with your point but the problem is that this generation is being lied to by the Japanese government. The Japanese leadership is sliding back to the fantasyland of Japan’s being “forced” into the war and hinting that atrocities never happened.
This generation and the ones that follow need to know the truth, not fiction.
I was going to post but you said it better.
Agreed.