[Tokhtamish]

The vital point you seem incapable of grasping is that the Japan of the 1980's was not the Japan of the 1930's. It was not an ambitious rival power dreaming of one day being a superpower. Like China is now.

Allowing American manufacturing to flow to China, subordinating our long term national security to shareholder equity is stupid.

[DugwayDuke]

"The vital point you seem incapable of grasping is that the Japan of the 1980's was not the Japan of the 1930's. It was not an ambitious rival power dreaming of one day being a superpower. Like China is now."

Really, Japan had no ambitions of being a superpower? They had the fastest growing economy in the world.