Americans, Japanese: Mutual Respect 70 Years After the End of WWII Neither Trusts China, Differ on Japan’s Security Role in Asia Adversaries in World War II, fierce economic competitors in the 1980s and early 1990s, Americans and Japanese nonetheless share a deep mutual respect. The animosity of the 1980s and 1990s, when U.S.-Japan relations were marked by a series of trade wars, has all but vanis
