At one time, the Japanese were our sworn enemies.

WWII veterans remember why all too well. Still, that was a lot of years ago.
More recently, Japanese have commented that Americans are lazy. Frankly, I have to agree with that, at least in general.

Today the Japanese are an independant democracy, and a valuable ally to the USA in many ways. It bites hard at a lot of Americans that the Japanese are being targeted. Misha has bloggged about it some, and frankly, I hope he and his commenters are right, I hope the spirit of Bushido is alive and well in their island nation. Whatever the case, I would love to see the people threatening the Japanese come to a hard end.