Admittedly, I skimmed over the opening parts of this article until I saw the familiar tenor -- which seems to be built on the American guilty conscience for just about everything. At no point did I see any reference to decades of expansionist fascist government in Japan, which at least by the early 1920s included spying on American and British bases and installations, "acquiring" plans of their weapons, and 1931 led the invasion of Manchuria, then the rapes of Nanking and Shanghai c.1937... And even this late stage of bushido warlordism it was four years before America could be stirred by Pearl Harbor to even contemplate war. By 1945 the Japanese emperor and govt were urging the mass of their population from Okinawa to Hokkaido to commit suicide before falling into the hands of the white devils -- and thousands on Okinawa did before even talking to US soldiers: surrender was not an option.

Yes, here in New Zealand we (even those of us who are US-born) wonder at the US obsession with guns, its 800 military bases, the sheer immenseness of the budgets supporting the military-industrial complex, & etc (to supplement the otherwise unfunded UN). But none of this switch to militarism applied before WWII. Let's at least pretend to look at both sides?