Stop Being a Crybaby And Grow Up, Japan!

I guess Japan lost the World War II a bit too comfortably.

She was forced to return all the territories gained through the wars in the modern era. But her torso remained intact, unlike Germany, Korea or Germany.

Japan was air-raided. That killed a lot people, I know. But think about what Russia and China suffered from the war.

Her emperor stayed on the throne. And he even managed to keep the Imperial title even though he lost the imperialist war.

She did not have to pay any compensation to the Allied Powers. Although both China received much much more serious damage from the Japanese brutality, she did not demand Japan to compensate their losses.

Japanese often say that Japan was put under the total control of the United States and was actually mere a U.S. colony after 1945. But the U.S. allowed Japan to maintain her currency undervalued for so long. Japanese were allowed to speak their own language and say whatever they wanted to say, without worrying about making Uncle Sam angry, at least after 1950s. America even kept her market open to Japan until she became rather threatening...

So the U.S. control over Japan was just more like a very humane surveillance to a delinquent high school kid than an oppression. We can see it from Japan's breakneck speed of economic growth under the U.S. umbrella.

What kind of disadvantage did Japan suffer from the U.S. control? It was much looser than in South Korea, South Vietnam, the Philippines and many small Latin nations in the U.S. backyard.

And she was allowed to indulge in an illusion that she was a victim of the WWII. Japanese tried hard to remember about their pain during that war. They tried hard to remember how miserable a war is. That may be a good thing. However, they totally did not care about who the hell started the fire.

It was a big mistake that started to bug Japanese after 1980s when her neighbours started to afford more time to remember about their painful past... While Japanese remembered their past pain in the economic boom that the human kind might have never experience before, China and Korea were suffering from the great divisions, which the WWII - the war they won - had brought them. They haven't achieved the reunification yet!

Actually, Japan has gained indeed helluvalot from the war it started and lost. Japanese do not want to face it.

Stop being a crybaby and grow up, Japan!