About one out of every 250 Canadians died in WWII. Only in the baltic states, parts of the Balkans and the Soviet Union did as great or greater percentage of people die as a result of the war, just in case you wanted to know.

While I don’t agree with your hatred, or condemning the children of the present for the sins of their fathers ( after all, name a culture free of guilt. My ancestors in the Royal Navy ended the transatlantic slave trade… but they also created it in the first place to run their sugar plantations.) I do agree that the lack of recognition of the sins of the past in Japan is disturbing and dangerous.

I will not accept responsibility for the rape and pillage of my Viking forbears, or the colonial excess of my British ancestors, any more than I will take credit for what good things they achieved. But I do acknowledge them.

I think the failure to learn from the past is dangerous, whether that failure is from an unwillingness to acknowledge the past or from an unwillingness to let it go.

Peace