The Lost Opportunity in the Pacific War

There are japanese intellectuals and an entire in a political history in Japan arguing that this should be what japan does, lead the region. They competed with the west for a place at the imperialist table and a slice of the chinese melon. The missing ingredient for all of those peoples that were under the colonial thumb is some sort of military that could fight off a military from the great powers. And just sad, everyone can join right now.