What's Happening in Japan?

The idea of japan feeling trapped in an exisdential battle against the western imperialist powers is something that i want to look at in more detail, because i think it's really important for getting to grips with the nature of us japanese relations. To understand it better, we need to cycle back to a couple of decades earlier, when discontent between japan and the western global powers was already fementing. The first world war, not everyone always appreciates the fact that during the first world war,. the japanese were on the side of the allies. So you have a japanese navy vessels rescuing allieds soldiers sailors in the mediterranean When they get on, their