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ransomnote: the writer is referring to Trump's jokes about Pearl Harbor which I included below.https://x.com/ImtiazMadmood/status/2035420456937759193 Imtiaz Mahmood@ImtiazMadmoodDo you truly understand what Japan just gained? As a Japanese citizen, I’m telling you—this moment changed history.Trump's Pearl Harbor joke wasn't an insult. It was the key that finally unlocked something buried deep in the Japanese soul.For 80 long years, we've carried apology and guilt like a permanent shadow—haunted by the past, bound by the Constitution America wrote for us, forever in "reflection mode." He turned that raw wound into a shared laugh between equals.No more endless atonement. No more vassal shadow.The curse...

When asked by a reporter about why the U.S. didn't share their Iran war plans with Japan, President Donald Trump said it was necessary for the element of surprise. The president followed this with a joke, saying, "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Ok, why didn’t you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

The pair met in the Oval Office and fielded questions from reporters, one of whom asked why Washington had not informed Tokyo of its plans to attack Iran. "We went in very hard. We didn't tell anybody about it because we wanted surprise," he said. "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor."

The former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has died, aged 67, after being shot while making a speech in the western city of Nara. ...