[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.

[Tokhtamish]

The Japanese are totally happy to let us make the geopolitical decisions. All they ask is to get rich within the Pax Americana.

China, the two characters that spell China, mean "The Center of the World". That is how they see their rightful place. They mean to become a military/economic superpower just like the United States. They mean to make the geopolitical decisions.

You seem incapable of understanding the difference.