Japan-China-US Relations

Keep in mind that regardless of who was in power, style of government, and everything else, Japan and China have antagonized each other for about 800 years. Japan is a net importer of food and raw materials. Taiwan sits in the middle of important shipping routes. Letting China take Taiwan would be national suicide for Japan.

I have lived in China, Korea and Japan and in my opinion you are not right.Fist, US of America is requesting Japan to do what is has done. They are worried about China, not Japan. Also the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam want Japan involvement.Japan today is a very old country which population is going to decrease in dozens of millions in the next decades.By contrast China has a population more than 10 times bigger than Japan, but now they are industrialized, they can sustain

Japan at least have recently changed a few laws to increase their military forces. Japan is a free country and they could change treaties if they wanted. We are just better off working together. I wonder what would have happened if say China & Russia didn't exist. Then there's be no one to threaten Japan, make them want to be a buddy of the US.

Japan is a sovereign country. They are closely allied to the US now but that doesn’t mean it will always be the case nor that they have to silently agree to every stupid mandate the US tries to impose.

Japan would like to have a word with you. (It also doesn't help that the US couped most of the South American examples to install dictators).

Look at Japan, to see what is future for US.

Japan attacked other asian nations to imitate UK and US, and defend against UK and US.Japan until mid 1800s was happily doing their own thing, and not caring for their neighbours, suddenly they had US metal ships on their docks, and the mighty China falling to UK.Their solution was outright imitate what western powers was doing, in several aspects (even clothes, mannerisms and cultural trends were copied), with the most important one being to act imperialistic, invade weak countries, and t

Japan never was a threat during that time to countries around it. China is very much a threat to other countries around it and I would feel pretty bad about materially financing yet another war.

Japan was "repeatedly slapped in the face" because of their increasing militarization, invasion of China (also Rape of Nanking), alliance with Italy and Germany, desire for control of all of East Asian (the Co-Prosperity Sphere), etc. The US response seems totally reasonable to me.

The country that will acquire is also important in this equation. Russians were blocked from buying Oregon steel for example. Japan is more like a protectorate of the US than a fully independent country post WW2, with specific articles of the constitution that block army sizes, specific military equipment, agreements for maintenance of permanent US bases and troops in the country etc. Even when recently they decided to re-interpret these articles this was done only with the express permission of