Ask Lemmygrad

As an ethnic Chinese, Japan may be bad, but at least they mind their own business (mostly/comparatively). There's certainly no way that they're the "worst" after the US/Isntreal, when the cracKKKerverse is still busy going around on genocidal crusades in the MENA region, conducting settler-colonial genocides, and trying to instigate WW3 and destroy the prosperity and development of China, Russia, all of the BRICS and ASEAN/etc to keep on top.

When contrasted to the settler-devils (the 5 Eyes- US/UK/Canada/Australia/NZ, France, and Isntreal) Japan looks outright saintly nowadays in comparison, and that's despite how shitty their government (which was preserved and designed to be this way by Uncle Sam) is.

the fact that they still have shrines for their war criminals and whitewash their past is beyond deplorable,

All the imperialist devils do this, Germany at most just has some "slight" embarrassment about a certain mustache man and his most prominent followers, but then look at their celebration of West German former Nazis ("freedom fighters," etc), look at their leaders cheering on industrial genocide in Palestine, or at monsters wearing human flesh like frau genocide/von der Leyen praising her Nazi grandpa who "fought for European integration" and you'll get an idea of what they still are truly about.

If nothing else, Japan had the "decency" to reject militarism, and much of the population continues to reject it to this day, even if their government hasn't. The collective cracKKKer devilry of the west still gleefully engages in international genocide, destabilization, regime change, and warmongering. I honestly don't think Japan's evil (as genuine of an issue as it is) is even remotely comparable to the sheer hateful, wretched evil of any of the Anglo countries or much of western Europe (Ireland as one of the key exceptions).

And Japan's indigenism (within their home islands and not Hokkaido/Ryukyu) is also of merit in and of itself. In contrast, the wretched Anglo settler-societies are a genuinely unnatural, cancerous growth on the world with no justification whatsoever (and which will never acquire such justification). The mentality of settler-ism, and the mentality of cracker-ism (which is also deeply tied to settler-ism) is considerably different from that of modern Japan's, for all their serious, grievous ills.