Due to the inherent superiority over all others that is inherent in Japanese culture, they can be difficult to deal with in serious circumstances. How long will it be before this social attribute worms its way back into their military? A nuclear-armed military at that?
Some reading on WWII in the Pacific Theatre is all you need to see that a Japan that keeps to themselves and only donates money is by far the ONLY Japan that we want to deal with.
I have great respect for them, but I feel that we must keep them militarily hobbled for as long as humanly possible.
Okay, thanks.
Give me a break. The Japan of 2004 is not the Japan of 1941. A Japan standing up and actually defending itself is not the same as a Japan raging rampant through East Asia. It's about time they found a balance between pacifism and conquest. Neither extreme was good for them.