P.E. you have given us a great laugh, thank you for the gift of humour.
I once had a foreman, in Reading, who one day came to work subdued, I asked him what the matter was. |¦| He said his granddad had just attacked a Japanese tourist on a bus. |¦| Strange.
It turned out my foremans granddad had been captured and tortured by Japs in the Second World War, and he hated them with all his being. |¦| He was unable to distinguish the past and the present.
I actually felt sorry for all of them, my foreman, his granddad and the innocent Japanese person. |¦| That is history and your personal perception.
Before the First World War, the country of Japan was given the nomenclature of honorary European country. |¦| So, after World War Two the Japs reverted to being Asian/Europeans, we like them but we hate the Chinese Communists.
I hope that sorts things out for you.