My grandfather spent a couple of years in WW2 in Changi.

Unfortunately, unlike the Germans, the Japanese never had war crimes trials, and never had to face what they had done.

The "comfort women" - girls who were kidnapped to be prostituted by the Japanese - still demonstrate once a week in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul. The last time an official in the Japanese government comments about it, he said, essentially, "No one cares what happens to a bunch of whores."

I have had many Japanese friends but it has not escaped me that all of them hated Japan...