Question:
What do Japanese people think of the attack on Pearl Harbor now?
Answer:
They really don't (think of it).
The history of the time between about 1932 (start of Japan's aggression in China) and 1946 is hardly mentioned in Japanese schools. WWII is portrayed more as a natural disaster, or like Godzilla attacking Tokyo (except Godzilla wins). Why does Godzilla attack Tokyo? Who knows!? - but surely it isn't Japan's fault.
The history of that time goes something like this:
"There we were - minding our own business - when suddenly the Americans dropped atomic bombs on us for no reason except racism".
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