This is a serious story.

Most of Japan's history is a history of war and turbulence, and the Edo period was exceptionally peaceful, but since there were samurai battling each other hard before and after the Meiji Restoration, Japanese people in the Taisho and early Showa periods, who were children and grandchildren of such samurai, may have had no sense of resistance to increasing their territory by fighting.
Well, even now, if you look around the world, it's full of wars and terrorism.
In undemocratic countries, the weak are cornered to the point where they have no choice but to resort to violence.
If it was an age where people fought with swords and guns, even the weak could have revolutionized if numbers gathered, but in the modern age where dictatorships have modern weapons, it's an impossible game for weak people to start a revolution in their own country, so they probably try to flee to other countries as immigrants.
It's also a battle for positions in a sense.
The weak eat the strong, the strong want to increase their territory, and the weak seek safe new places.
Humans are still better off, and wild animals are completely weak and strong eaters.
The world of Rikudo Reincarnation is such a horrible repetition of life and death.
That's why Buddhism aims to attain enlightenment (attain Buddhism) and be freed (graduated) from the Rikudo Reincarnation (Nirvana).
Now that I'm sick of this world, it might be the right time to learn Buddhism.

Basically, I'm going to forgive. But don't forget it.
I think it's good to be in that position.

There are various ways of looking at a fact from person to person.

However, what must not be misunderstood
“Unforgivable conduct” and “unforgivable race” are completely different things.

In the world of Shura, “what was done and what was done” is a guideline for value judgment,
If you ask a question about Buddhism, it will be from the viewpoint of “being blessed and doing.”

From the point of view of mass murder, I'm more heartbroken by extermination due to avian influenza or swine fever

I hope it's helpful...

Thank you for your question.

Deep sincerity and pain were conveyed from Somo's words.
While studying Japanese history, it is not easy for anyone to look at past abuses and barbarism.
Nevertheless, the attitude of trying to know the truth and trying to directly accept emotions is more precious than anything else.

However, I just want to tell you a little bit
It means that Japanese people who lived in that era also lived while believing “they were right.”
Many of them had pure feelings of “I want to protect my family” and “I want to improve the country.”
However, that purity was “used” in national speculations and social trends, and as a result, it was led in the direction of hurting other countries and others.
There was a “tragedy of the times” that went beyond individual right and wrong.

That's why the first thing we can do now is “know.”
Also, “think” about why such a thing happened and what moved people so far.
On top of that, I think it's about exploring how to “make use” of today's society and how to live as a Japanese person through my own considerations.

Also, humans are creatures with “greed.”
Instead of denying it as evil, it is important to first accept the fact that “there is desire.”
Greed sometimes runs wild and creates destruction, but that power can also be transformed into “the power to live with someone.”
In other words, I think “controlling one's desires” is human growth and the beginning of mercy.

The guilt and suffering you are feeling right now
It seems like proof that they are seriously questioning “what is a human being.”
What if that pain is “waking up pain,” which is neither ignorance nor indifference...
Please don't blame that pain, but rather connect it to a “new sense of pride.”
Rather than regretting the past, learn from the past and make use of it in the future
That may be the most sincere redemption we can do as we live in the present.

At the beginning of the Meiji era, the Japanese government, which was concerned that civilization was lagging behind other countries in the world, set out a policy of leaving Asia and entering Europe. As an Asian country, Japan sought to leave Asian culture and adopt Western culture and civilization. As a result, it developed as an advanced country throughout the Meiji, Taisho, Showa, Heisei, and Reiwa eras, but the Japanese culture that Japanese people have cherished has become estranged to many Japanese people.” Ancient Japanese aesthetics such as “wabi” and “rust” should be carefully handed down as identities that Japanese people should have, but unfortunately such traditions have become tenuous.
Even now, I think we should change direction in order to restore ancient Japanese culture. Buddhism also has a reverse influx from Europe and America, such as mindfulness, and I think it is possible to return to the original form of Japanese Buddhism by adding ancient Japanese cultural characteristics to it. How about it?