At the dawn of the new millennium, many nations continue to grapple with the historic and moral implications of World War II. In Berlin, the German government broke ground for a new Holocaust Memorial, and in Stockholm 40 heads of state joined with historians, educators and Jewish survivors of the Nazi genocide in an unprecedented display of international solidarity against Nazism and Holocaust denial. Clearly, there is a growing consensus that the civilization of the 21st century can only avoid repeating past errors by confronting history, not burying it. Sadly, there is a different picture as concerns Japanese war crimes of the 1930s and 1940s. Instead of measured and serious historic review, near hysteria is sweeping the ongoing debate over this issue.