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 asked one young woman why she wanted to visit the wreck and she admitted she and her friends wanted to see what her grandfathers and great grandfathers had done. They couldn't believe Japan had deliberately attacked the island, killing so many young Americans.