What can you say, it dredges up strong emotions among everyone involved, but this kind of house cleaning needs to be done.
It is a step in the right direction.
Amen, however, the house cleaning the really needs to be done is restitution to surviving POWs and spouses for using the POWs as slave labor. My wife's uncle survived the coal mines in Japan. He never talked about it and I found out about his past (Bataan Death March, Hell Ships, Japanese coal mines) after he passed on in 2003.
For a good read about the whole Japanese POW disgrace see "Surviving the Sword" by Brian MacArthur.