>>4579707That's true, but Japan has a defense and cooperation treaty with the USA, we simply walked all over the Philippines even after the 1898 treaty of Paris. Japan was a major world power at the start of WW2 and had the 2nd largest Navy on Earth and 5th largest Army and Air Force and held territories all across the Pacific and Manchuria and China and even Burma and India for 40 years. Compared with the Philippines which was ruled by the Spanish for several centuries, it was much easier to take down the Philippines and even the weakened Spanish Empire for the US than it was for us to take down Imperial Japan during WW2. So unless Japan rescinds the treaty, they are obligated to be defended by us and be our closest ally in the Pacific and in return we (the USA) will go to war with any nation that threatens Japan, even if that nation is combined Russia and China.
