It's true the japs were devil's advocates, hungry for power, but America is indifferent today to that of nazis or japs with their intentions and actions.
The difference is the US has an overempowering means to subvert and brainwash people to 'admire' the US and think the rest of the world is in need of America's saving them..
I've grown up with ww2 propaganda movies about hitler and what have you. 'm aware who he is, what he did, etc... but after ww2, all this is used for is to justify and subject people into thinking we are always battling hitlers