Japan was to be feared. The imperial nation had expanded its boundaries into China, South Korea and beyond. To this day, while most Japanese will concede that the country was extremist, they will readily point out the fact that America and Europe did a similar land grab in the preceding centuries, with all the atrocities that such moves entail so their hands are certainly not clean on this issue. Japan, if anything, was too late in its Empire building. The legacy of this failed conquest manifests itself in anti-Japanese sentiment in Asia.
- Brian Ashcraft, playing to the base in his usual semi-literate way over at Kotaku
