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Originally Posted by soopaman2
I would rather fight for a Japanese citizen who thinks we are OK, and leave us alone
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Admittedly, it's nowhere near the scale of Afghanistan and Iraq, but certainly the US isn't quite as welcomed as they used to be. The same thing is happening in Korea, as more of the older generation pass on, they forget the war, and things like the old 'stabbed in the back myth' (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth) become popular amongst the youth, and the nationalist feelings reawaken.
I am wary of Japan, there is a lot about WWII that they still deny or try to cover up, the school book scandal of a few years ago shows that, and let's not get started on Nanking. I think the whole issue over the Yasukuni Shrine is a bit daft, but there's still a LOT of hatred in the local area and while I don't think it'll boil over into war in
this decade, it does mean that another conflict in the Pacific
could occur within the century.