Is there now a Japanese thinking that they were right then? This just legitimizes that way of thinking and it is alright to rape other lands in search for resources for home.
That attitude is not unique to Japan. It's the way many great powers have behaved throughout history. It's the way Red China is behaving now, yet we created that situation by bestowing "most favored nation" status on China and transferring much of our manufacturing there. History is not as simple as some people think, and few nations are either villains or heroes.