Exactly, I couldn't have written it better. I didn't mean your review, I meant Becquaert's vision of Romans. I don't think they'd be bothered by some of the things she supposes they would be. And that they would not see him as a hypocrit in the things related to the Virtue and to the Republic. Why should they? I think what would have bothered them would be his lack of action in the last months of his life, not the Terror.
As for the Japanese, it seems to me that the Bloodthirsty dictator porpaganda does not work so well with them. It seems they are rather assimilating him to the traditional figures of Japanese magistrates: serious, powerful, learned men who were supposed to bear the responsibility of making difficult, even harsh decisions for the benefit of the whole. And their culture still values less the hedonism, and appreciates more the austerity and the incorrutibility of the magistrates, at least in theory.