My father was in the Navy and fought the Japanese in the South Pacific in WWII. He took direct fire from them, and had buddies killed by them. He also understands something else: they lost the war - they surrendered. They submitted to our taking over their country and re-making it with USA-style governement - as they should have after what they did.
And you know what?? On business trips that he took to Japan in the 1960's, from what he told me, he found that the vast majority of the people in Japan are very nice, good-hearted people, who are very kind, and are nothing like the thugs who ran the country in the first half of the twentieth century.
By the 1980's as the quality of American cars declined, he even switched to buying Japanese cars, as did our entire family. When I eventually met and married a Japanese woman, he had no big problem with it.
BTW - my dad is VERY much a Conservative, who likes Rush Limbaugh, and supports Sarah Palin.
Japan has learned it's lesson as much as any country is capable of doing so, and has been one of our most loyal allies for more than half a century now. Without turning a blind eye to Pearl Harbor, and the horrible attrocities their military committed in WWII, it is possible to say that the Japan of today is a very different nation than it was then. They have also proven themselves to be very good friends of ours in a part of the world that is very hostile to our interests.
My dad realizes that, unlike the moslems you mention, the Japanese were capable of learning their lesson, and reforming. Yes, they and Germany committed attrocities in WWII, but like intelligent people, they learned from their mistakes (albeit by force), and they changed. The moslems do not seem to be capable of the same thing, as they have not changed their behavior in centuries.
All due respect to your Dad but when the ‘’Japs’’ admit to what they did to other Asians and to Allied prisoners of war and stop weeping about Hiroshima and Nagasaki maybe I’ll believe they’re ‘’nice people’’.