>>28312320Signs pointing to being more American than Japanese:
-People born there are American citizens
-They send fully voting representatives to the USA's bicameral congress (at one time controlling the most senior position in the senate)
-State Government controlled by the USA's Democratic party
-Majority of people speak English
-They use the USD
-The people from there comprise a part of, and are protected by, the various branches of the US military
-They send tax revenue to, and receive tax revenue from, Washington DC
-It's physically much closer to the United States
-It's heavily populated by the decendents of migrants of many varying origins who came there within the last 200 years
-One of the presidents of the USA was born there
-You can own a gun there
Signs (weakly) pointing to being more Japanese than American:
-Many of the American citizens who live there are of Japanese descent
-Lots of Japanese tourists go there
