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It's mostly subtext, and not really something that's ever discussed directly (or even something most Japanese creators are aware of consciously), but pretty much any story from Japan where the villain ends up forgiven no matter what they've done is rooted in it. One of the earliest examples of...

To be fair, the aftermath of World War 2 kinda ingrained certain things into the Japanese collective consciousness; and one of those is forgiving even the worst evils, because that's what America did for Japan.