Bigoted ignorance, as displayed in your response, is one reason why I think we Asians cannot ever consider the white race to be a friend.
Too bad I'm not white. Your tribal mentality is disgusting. This has nothing to do with skin color and everything to do with culture. I'm not some alt-right pseudo-intellectual who believes in white nationalism - I simply defend Western culture, and I believe that foreigners can be assimilated into Western culture. The fact is, Japanese culture is considered an outlier even in comparison to the rest of East Asia and even more so in comparison to Western culture. For these purposes, I define friendship as amiable ties founded on deep mutual understanding, like the US enjoys with the Anglosphere and most of Western Europe. Such a relationship is impossible with Japan because of the cultural incompatibility.
This also has nothing to do with ethnic Asians in Western society. I believe a precedent for well-integrated East Asian immigrants into Western society exists with the Japanese in Hawaii and Hong Kongers in Canada, and I welcome similar developments elsewhere. In fact, long-settled immigrants can be tremendously helpful in assimilating newcomers of the same ethnicity - again, look at the work of Chinese Anglican churches set up in Canada by Hong Konger immigrants in the 80s which now work to integrate Mainlanders into the country.