[Sir Francis Dashwood]

Ping-a-ling...

I say offer them statehood...

Or:

...admission into the union as a U.S. Territory with a separate, autonomous governing body via Constitutional Amendment...

Geopolitically we have a lot of shared interests...

[DTogo]

I don't know if I'd go so far as statehood, but we should have much tighter trade and military relations.

[Paul_Denton]

...admission into the union as a U.S. Territory with a separate, autonomous governing body via Constitutional Amendment... Geopolitically we have a lot of shared interests...

Taiwan enjoys that status under the San Francisco Peace Treaty. Japan under similar status would be great.