There are many Americans who can speak Japanese.

Guohua knows many foreign students, there are Japanese, Koreans, French, as well as Americans.

So, fortune cookies invented by the Japanese, popularized by the Chinese, but ultimately consumed by Americans.

Most Japanese, mostly among the old generation, are satisfied with the kind of society they have built. They perceive Americans and Europeans as being obsessed with money and material ambition, and they seem ready to accept some stagnation as the price of remaining truly Japanese.

But one factor could bolster Abe s cause considerably. Explicit US support for Japanese constitutional reform might not only blunt Chinese criticism, but could also reassure many Japanese that updating Article 9 would not amount to rejecting the postwar order that the Americans helped to establish in Japan.

But, until recently, the divergences were viewed in terms of interests, not philosophies. Americans wanted additional demand for their goods and higher prices, while the Germans and Japanese defended their export industries.

Japanese governments could devote their energy to building up the country s industrial wealth, while the US took care of security, and by extension much of Japan s foreign policy. It was an arrangement that suited everyone the Japanese became rich, the Americans had a compliant anti communist vassal state, and other Asians, even Communist China, preferred Pax Americana to a revival of Japanese military clout.

Richard Nixon became a close friend. His lifelong quest was to revise the pacifist Japanese constitution, written by the Americans just after the war, and turn Japan into a proud military power once more.

Many in the US feared that, just as the nineteenth century had been British and the twentieth century had been American, the twenty first century would be Japanese. But, unlike the British or the Americans, the Japanese allegedly were gaining ground in nefarious ways, exporting aggressively to the US and unfairly excluding US exports from their domestic market.

The Japanese classes were not Japanese instruction classes, per se.

Japanese conservatives view their country s post war pacifist constitution, written by Americans in 1946, as a humiliating assault on Japanese sovereignty. Now that China is testing its growing power by claiming territories, not just in the East China Sea, but also in the South China Sea, Japanese nationalists insist that Japan must act as a big power, and be seen as a serious player, fully prepared to defend its sovereignty, even over a few insignificant rocks.

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Moreover, pacifism is deeply ingrained in the Japanese psyche, even among young people, largely owing to the painful legacy of Japan s prewar militarism. Indeed, a poll conducted by the World Values Survey last year revealed that only 15.3 of Japanese compared with 74.2 of Chinese and 57.7 of Americans would be prepared to defend their country, the lowest rate in the world.

The war changed that equation. Higher oil prices mean that Americans (and Europeans and Japanese) are paying hundreds of millions of dollars to Middle East oil dictators and oil exporters elsewhere in the world rather than spending it at home.

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It's not Japanese.

Defending Japanese Defense

The Japanese Experiment

Are you Japanese?

Are you Japanese?

Is he Japanese?

Is she Japanese?

She is Japanese.

You aren't Japanese.

The Americans, they're rich.

One third of Americans.

They say, you Americans.

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Will Americans Become Poorer?

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They must be Americans.

Many Americans are obese.

Americans are kind people.

Japanese children brought up overseas sometimes face great difficulty in adjusting themselves to Japanese schools after returning, even though they have a perfect command of Japanese.

But that is still regarded by the Americans, Japanese, Koreans, and probably even the Chinese as too much of a risk. As a result, the status quo is likely to persist, which means that nationalist grandstanding over conflicting territorial claims is far from over.

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Is America Turning Japanese?

Iraq and Japanese Isolation

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