You're sure of this?
You're sure about the Germans, too?
You're sure that the last war *really fundamentally changed* these two authority-worshiping societies, to the point where they will never again become a focal point for global totalitarian brutality?
I've always wondered if the Romans knew something we don't, when they made a point of utterly destroying those civilizations which attacked them, rather than trying to assimilate, accomodate, or change them.
History will certainly judge... but I just hope I'm not still around if it passes the kind of judgement that I can see in my mind's eye, in my darker moments...
But the point is, the youth of Japan and Germany today are not brought up to unquestioningly follow orders as they were in the '30's and '40's, and this somewhat puts the kaibosh on filling the ranks with happy little drones willing to wage aggressive war on one's neighbors.