[ZULU]

That Idiot in the White House is REALLY screwing up foreign policy, ISN’T he????

We are perceived as less than a third rate power under that moron and our allies, Japan,Israel, etc, will pay the price.

[AmericanInTokyo]

It's not that simple, of course.

We have tens of thousands of American military here in Japan, all the way down to Okinawa (not to mention something like 70,000 non-US military in Japan--American citizens), so it is not just an issue of Japan alone bearing any brunt of provocative Red Chinese Hegemony and Brinksmanship and "going it alone".