How Americans view Sino-Japanese ties!

[KEmperor]

I agree with what most of James and dazzleman has said.  Japan was certainly guilty of horrible crimes during the war.  But the war is long over.  Most of those people are dead, and the modern Japanese are not responsible.  There reaches a point where you have to move on.  Germany was guilty of great atrocities during the war as well, but modern Germans are not responsible either.

[KEmperor]

Japan has never been more powerful than the US, besides the fact that Japan has very little military to speak of.

[KEmperor]

Japan has never been more powerful than the US, besides the fact that Japan has very little military to speak of.

Are you sure? Sir.
Did British predict that American would become the superpower?

Yes, I am sure.  Japan had it's militaristic expansionist phase, and it resulted in defeat.  They are constitutionally prohibited from any agressive actions.

[KEmperor]

Regardless of how remote Japan's chances are of becoming more powerful than the US, two questions come to my mind:

1. Why would Japan want to become more powerful than the US?

2. Why would Japan attack the United States, if Japan did somehow become more powerful than the US?

It's not exactly as if Japan is under the control of a militant dictatorship that hates the rest of the world.

Also excellent points Gabu.