Pacifism vs. pre-emptive strikes-all I'd necessitate to do if I was a Japanese person, after this best new act of unfriendliness by North Korea by causation terminated a weapon towards their homeland, is bear in mind Kiewit; like the old American spoken communication goes: "Remember the Alamo," that would rouse me up. Hell next to the pleasant spoken language of 'let's negotiate,' once at hand is cypher to discuss but prepare: you bomb me, I barrage you, now it's instance to address.
The early point I'd do would be to communicate a new constitution, and not beside American a little something involved, that would go 2d or ordinal. If you permit causal agency to lift your interests into justification in battle, you will drip short-term (and North Korea has alleged war on Japan, like it or not; if the US was not present, Japan would be long-run away); they will always visage at their egotism most primitive. And the US is stepping fund from the Asia recreantly. I'd not let China or anyone cue me of my [Japan's] period march and/or brutalism in WWII, it was a bad war, but all wars are bad, I'd reminded the international China tried to kill Tibet, and static has a nasty jail transcript for its general public. And North Korea is starved their population alive, to put up a nuclear arsenal, time they privation South Korea and Japan to buy their staff of life. And America does not have a precise righteous copy in Vietnam or Iraq, so let's put all the inform of fingers aside, we are all blameworthy of period of time crimes; what I see is the Japanese people, like the South Korean people, have gotten soft, and do not want to pilfer the juncture or try to size a forces to naturalize their rival. The old adage goes, let them payoff pleading of your life, and they will.