The Last Guardian

[Dark Jaguar]

And just think about how much more sad it would be if they had a survivor that's like "Look at what you've done to my country!!" and then he cries, but he's also mad too and that's important. So he takes up a machine gun that he finds lying on the ground, goes to Washington DC, and kills the President, thus saving Japan from shame.

Makes the emotions that much more potent, I think.

Of course! Though for the record I really don't think that movie was trying to make some point about how evil Americans were, just something much more basic, that hurting people hurts them, you know, war is bad for all involved and hurts more than the combatants.

It's true that their schools need a more frank open discussion of WW2 than what their education currently provides though.

For example, when I was taught about the trail of tears in Oklahoma history, they didn't skip any of the details. By the end I acknowledged there is no pride to be had in my state's past.

...Incidentally that lesson was more or less undermined by a "sooner rush" type event where everyone ran around "claiming land" in a rush to have a picnic, more or less for fun.