I met some guys who were buddies with my father. One flew fighters against the Japanese in the Pacific. We was an Ace. The other guys fought them hand to hand in jungles. Every body I talked to said they were fanatical to the death. I know a man who is famous today in Japan. He was educated at San Francisco State and Boalt Hall Law School at Berkeley. After graduating from law school, he went back home to fight for Japan. His entire family was Christian. His father was the first elected Premier of Japan in 1947. He invaded us again with the Datsun automobile and that invasion was a huge success.
Japan would have created havoc on the West Coast.