Same with Germany, them Imperial Dreams had them doing a lot of grimey shit. (Pearl Harbor, Rape of Nanking, "Comfort Women" etc.) They still won't own up to all the medical experimentation stuff.

They didn't have the people or resources to do what they wanted to do on a global scale. If they tried to do it again they'd have the US, UK, China AND Russia squading up on them...so fuck it. Might as well focus on industry so we can at least cake up if we can't have colonies.

They still have a sizeable right-wing "fuck all that western influence" political presence.