I am wary of Japanese as any others. Indeed, one of my main beef about Kim Jong-il is, in addition to his brutal dictatorship, to provide nice pretext for rearmament of Japan, by continuing his nuclear/missile blackmail. He may extend his regime for a few more years this way, but changes long-term geopolitical landscape of E. Asia irreversibly. I would shoot him one hundred times and may watch blood pouring out one hundred bullet holes, but I doubt that I would regret it.
The chicoms are the ones changing the geopolitical landscape, not Japan. It was bound to happen. It's best it happens now, while the free world can still address the situation together.
China looms like a huge black cloud over all asia. They're the center of the 'axis of evil'. They're what all the maneuverings and build ups have been about. Free people will have to set aside old grievences of the past and work together, in order to leave a free world to their grand children.