People will forgive, it is in their nature, provided the right conditions exist, and that is that those who are responsible bear the consequences for their crime. It is not going to be easy. But it will happen.
But people should never forget what happened and the suffering this war brought on them. How can we as a society ever move on and improve if we allow the past to become a taboo?
Allegiances change fast, Germany was American best friend pretty soon after firebombing their cities
that killed much more civilians than current Russia invasion killed in Ukraine.
Japan went through even worse bombing, yet they're American favorite pet now, and
forgave everything
Germany was never America's best friend, they just saw a tool against communism until they become something worse. Again, US let's Europe play and kill their people and then sound the bell. Anything sounds familiar?
On Japan, I will give you that. US did not kill the emperor and supported reconstruction, so Japanese people, who probably had little support for war, looked on them and manage to compete strongly with the US in a few decades.