[FigurativeVoid]

I find a lot of people that say something like this, especially Americans, they totally ignore the colonial history and how poorly the Japanese were (and still are) treated by Americans and other outsiders.

They may be closed off, I don’t know. But I don’t think it’s some cultural trait.

[Affric]

You mean they ignore the seven or so years that the Americans were in charge of Japan after the Japanese state went on a 30 year rampage through East Asia and the Pacific where Americans have supposedly treated the Japanese poorly during that time?

[princevegeta89]

Never heard of this before - regarding colonial history and treatment towards other races, please refer to the WW2 diaries of the imperial Japanese army for how they treated civilians in China, Korea and (to some extent) America.