The war of Japanese invading China was an act of state with the entire nation participating
directly and indirectly at their own willingness through the whole process.
An example:
There was a women organization called "The national defense women committee" with more
than ten million members across Japan in support of their so-called " Holy War" at the inspiration
of one female "martyr" committing suicide at the eve of her husband leaving for the looting
battlefield in China in early 1930s in order to encourage him to fight recklessly and relentlessly.
With other similar organizations, almost all Japanese women strove to serve the war wholeheartedly.
Upon occupying Nanjing and afterwards slaughtering, more than eight hundred thousand Japanese people gathered and celebrated in ecstasy in front of the Japanese Imperial Palace.
What an innocent and ignorant nation!
The overwhelmingly majority of the nation just justified their invading, looting, killing, and
called this "holy"!
Maybe You'd like to say it is a history, past is past.
But what happens nowadays?
The obdurately refusing to admit the Nanjing Massacre, describing the invading war mistakenly
on purpose, and constantly visiting the Yasukuni Shrine enshrining the A-class war criminals by
Japanese top politicians even the prime ministers.
Japan is a democratic country meaning their government representing their own people,
and the ordinary people are entitled to their say in their policies.
Now, anybody can guarantee that one day the same thing happens, the ordinary Japanese
people will act opposed to their government or just act the same as they did in the war of
Japanese invading China?