Off-Topic
] The U.S. was generous in their post war occupation (not hanging Hirohito, etc) and constitution
For decades, practically since the end of WWII, modern Japanese cities with US military bases, air or ground, always wanted the Americans to go home – while they understand the financial
contributions by the US military to the local economies, they consider the negative behaviours of the US military, from drunk driving to aircraft crashes, as a greater Evil; unlike in modern USA,
when USA cities with US military bases pray to BRAC to keep the bases open.
For comparison, whenever a USN CVBG is in Hong Kong for shore leave, the local newspapers have at least a small article about its arrival, and how many millions of HKD its crew members will
spend in Hong Kong for, eh, beers, MP3 players, Wii, &c. 8D
] and the West was bound to be nicer to them than communist China (especially after what happened in the war) or the USSR.
Commie China was reasonably generous to the Japanese civies who lived in the three northeastern provinces previously occupied by Imperial Japan, allowing them to return to Japan.
Nationalist Taiwan was also probably generous to Japan, as Japan occupied Taiwan for decades; and modern Taiwan still admires Japan.
] Realistically, Japan could never win a modern fight against the PRC…
Realistically, Commie China probably has enough missiles to saturate and disrupt Japan – or Taiwan, but no purpose or reason to invade Japan.
Commie China also has numerical superiority to solidify her jurisdiction AND ownership of the Diao Yu Tai Islands, but doesn’t seem to have the political spine.
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