Japan's problem is that they cannot admit to the wrongdoing that they were involved in
committing during the war even after all these years.  If they would admit the wrong and try to
make amends, they could move on. It seems that they think that if they wait until all these women
die off, it  all  will be forgotten and that will be that.  The Japanese were wooed into becoming
an imperialistic  power to counter balance the Russians by Teddy Roosevelt and became  full of
themselves after defeating Russia in the Russo-Japanese war and invaded China, Manchuria, Taiwan, and Korea and then foolishly responded to Franklin Roosevelt's embargo of  vital raw materials by attacking Pearl Harbor and elsewhere in Asia  thereby allowing
the entry of the United States into the war in Europe and of course Japan.  The rest as they  say is
history.