I guess because that was Japan then and this is Japan now. I spent 18 glorious months in Okinawa in the early 80's. After having grown up around WW2 Pacific Theater vets I was prepared to find hostile little killers on Okinawa. Instead I found very hard working, disciplined people who, if treated with the respect any decent human deserves, would return the respect and whatever else you put into the relationship. I only ran into a few knotheaded kids that acted like they wanted to start WW2 all over again. The older people, those who lived through WW2, would tell you straight out they didn't know what was really going on and that there was nothing they could have done about it anyway. They were conscripted and beaten into submission and more or less brain washed. I found the Okinawans to be fine people overall.
Menawhile, back at home at that time, our cars were trash, our society was still living out the aftermath of Vietnam, drugs were flowing like water and the "where's mine?" crowd was getting it's foot in the door. I ended up buying 2 Toyota PUs, one I put over 300K on before rust got it and the other I bought used with 140K on it and it made it another 140K before rust killed it. Those people over there designed very, very good machinery and built those trucks in the USA. Our people USED to design and build very good machinery- now it's not so hot and is built someplace else to low standards, unless you're willing to sink $70K into a PU!
And you wonder why a Marine would drive a Toy, Nissan or Subaru?
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