My dad was not all that interested in buying anything Made In Japan. Maybe it was getting all of his upper teeth knocked out and shot in the abdomen. Then returning from the Philippians in a hospital ship.
However, in 1982 he bought my mom a Honda Accord.
Time heals all wounds....
I knew someone who survived the Bataan Death March and spent the rest of the war as a POW in Japan. When he bought a Japanese car, people knew that WWII was really over.
For some it does, but not all. If we forget the lessons of history, we tend to repeat it.