Yeah, some allied soldiers committed atrocities. But there was NEVER an institutionalized brutality, unthinking callousness to torture and abuse, in the allied armies like there was in both the Japanese and German armies. (Though the German brutalities were focused on specific "racial" groups.)
Unfortunately, to the rest of the world the US is as much an organized and institutionalized machine of brutality as well.
Name one instance since 1945 up to date in which US engaged in a highly controversial/illegal military operations throughout the world ranging from intelligence/covert ops to anti-communist incursions, paramilitary activities, invading the sovereighnity of another nation without international consent, "War against terror", "The hunt for WMDs", and on and on and on. A variety of military operations were carried out which resulted in untold number of civilian casulaties and human rights violations, and not one official acknowledgement and apology from the US.
That's right. The US never apologizes, never, ever.
Even if they go so far as to acknowledge that a certain event which they are being accused of did happen, they still don't apologize. The clever diplomatic think-thanks coming up with a million-and-one excuses to claim the 'neccessity of it all'. Frankly, how anyone expects anything different from the Japanese is beyond me.
Don't get me wrong. I'm as much against Mr. Abe's rightwing Japanese policies as any other. However, bringing the past histories against every movie the Japanese make which is based on WW2 is just plain ol' silly.
Oh sure, I understand why some people are concered about the 'glorification of past history', and yet for some reason, the same people who are concerned about such things never seem to be to be as much concerned with the ugly aspects of their own country.
Weird, ain't it?
