Let me get this straight, because bad people living in geographical region A hurt good people living in geographical region B over sixty years ago, the good people living in geographical region A must now stand passively by as bad people in geographical region B hurt them.
You can tell a leftist wrote the article, because no decent human being would argue that a genocidal tyranny should go unopposed.
Who could blame them? The Japanese can see the demise of the U.S. Military under Clinton, and can see that Bush is focused on the problems elsewhere in the world. I think that Japan sees the U.S. Guarantee of Japan's safety as not very credible. Japan is only looking out for their own interests - as it should be.
In fact, Bush should be supporting Japan in this. He should tell China: "YOU have a problem with N. Korea ... the U.S. is not going to stand aside and watch YOU and your Communist ally develop nuclear weapons while the free nations of S. Korea, Japan, and Taiwan do not.