[SAMWolf]

Thanks fo rthe background, Mortimer Snavely. I know very little about Japanese history before the 2nd World War.

[Mortimer Snavely]

I lived over there on the economy for a long time. Beautiful country, basically nice people, good beer, good bar food, beautiful women, but they are sadly among the most ill-governed folks I know. Still into collectivism as normal. Part of that requires an ignorance of history which I think is only matched over here.