[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

"While Iwo Jima is revered in the United States, the battle is largely ignored in Japan. In events planned to lead up to the 60th anniversary of Japan's Aug. 15 surrender, Japan is expected to focus largely on events in which its civilians were victims: the Tokyo firebomb raid, the battle for Okinawa, and the dropping of nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki."

You'd think with the terrible black cloud of Red China looming over all of Asia, the Japanese would be a bit more hesitant to spit in our eye.

[kellynla]

I don't judge an entire civilization, race, creed, nationality and/or color by what a few people say or do...

But the Japs initiated the war and we finished it.
nuff said!

and we could have buried the entire country if we had wanted to...
if not for America, they'd all be eating rice and living in huts if not dead!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

That is exactly what's happening now. Japan and the US are allies. The war was over in '45. Except for these anniversaries that come around, we have a common problem.