A lot of older generation Asians (Boomers, Silent gen) still hold resentment over Japan because they actually witnessed the horrors of the Empire firsthand or had parents who barely survived and lived to tell the tale.

I think the fact that Japan was banned from playing imperialism before most people were born makes it easy to memory hole the atrocities

I think people are also lowkey jaded. Like I live in soon fascist historical revisionist Germany that just supported a Genocide. Most of the ppl on here live in the USA (like wtf I can't even). So people are just used to ignore all the horror and enjoy what's still enjoyable. Not saying that its right, just saying its hard to live a different life while living in these garbage countries. The other batshit insane stuff like the growing transphobia leading to trans genocide comes on top of that. Ask me how my transition is going.