“My late Dad was a WWII Navy veteran and would not buy or ride in a jap (as he called them until his death) automobile.”
My Dad was the same way. He was at Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
Hated the Japanese and anything associated with them till the day he died.
I wasn’t born until the war had been over for about nine months but I still don’t have much good to say about, or any trust in, the Japanese. I do drive a Toyota Tundra, but it was designed and built in Indiana by Americans.
The Japs did hideous to their POWs.