In the fantastic rose colored glasses dreams of the optimists in japan, they see a giant rising of all the peoples of asia. But if those things don't happen JAPAN is going to be ground to powder. The only person who perhaps could have saved them would have been somebody who stood up and said, at the last minute, we don't put statues up to people that give into our enemies. That's when you get back to the whole tis functional japanese government and how much of a tool it was to prevent thinking that was patriotic enough from being publicly expounded upon.