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I'm not going to apologize for American imperialism, but will point out that its benevolent compared to Japanese empire.
In Korea, the Japanese imposed a factory-farm system for rape. Unit 731 did things in China that would make an IDF officer puke in his boots.
The IDF took notes.
Regardless, the Japanese of imperial era have been dead and buried for over 80 years. I'm not sure what the continuous US occupation of is southern most island does to rectify century old crimes.
The government has refused to apologize. Schools don't say anything bad about imperial Japan. Every new years my local shrine hangs up the rising sun flag signed by all the local soldiers who were out commiting heinous acts in neighbouring countries. If you've ever visited Japan and stayed in an APA hotel, the owner is the Japanese equivalent of a Holocaust denier and has a book in the drawer of every room explaining Japan did nothing wrong. Even the Hiroshima peace museum starts its plea for pity with "somehow Japan found itself at war". Not to mention government celebration of war criminals at Yasukuni.
Japan has a cultural problem acknowledging their wrongdoings during the war. Japanese people are now very pro-peace in general, but it's a mistake to pretend the past can't repeat if we don't remember and understand it.
How has US occupation improved that?
What does this have to do with the US? You literally just claimed Japan has no responsibility to make amends for the war because:
No, I said the US occupation has no role in reforming Japan.
You two are both having independent conversations, you just happen to be replying to each other for some reason.
I'm responding to what they wrote...
You do realize that this is literally American Imperialism apologetics?
Formally, the "But X was worse" apologetic argument is called the Fallacy of relative privation, less formally its called the "not as bad as argument" or "appeal to worse problems", and informally (but most popularly) its known as whataboutism.
And its a very well known apologetic tactic.
Saying that you aren't going to apologize for something, then using whataboutism is roughly akin to saying "im not a christian, but Jesus Christ is God"
It may not be your intent to apologize for American Imperialism, but that is more or less exactly what you are doing here.
If your goal is really to not apologize for American Imperialism, you need to learn and avoid the most common apologetics tactics because saying "I dont wanna do X" followed immediately by doing X just makes you sound either disingenuous or ignorant.
(Yes, the Japanese terrorism campaign in WWII was awful, but whataboutism isnt the way to bring it up).
Especially since everyone responsible in that era is long dead.