Other Japanese inventions of note: Trinitron Picture Tube(Sony), VTEC(Honda)/VVTi(Toyota),Walkmans, etc. Last I check there quite a few a US patents being filed
by the Japanese Engineers. That's a lot more than we are! By the way I am an Electronics Engineer working in the private industry on Satellites.

German Inventions: V-1/V-2 Buzz Bombs, Blitzkriek,U-boats, Bismarck, and Killing POW's from behind(Battle of the Bulge).

Yes, I do consider myself lucky and I am sure the sons of many veterans of other wars do the same. I remember in 1996, on a return flight to the mainland from Hawaii, I met an elderly man who was a Pearl Harbor Veteran. Talking to his wife, I found out that he had not been back since the war. He harbored many ill feelings towards the Japanese. I started talking to him and told him of my background and family history. Over the course of five hours, he and I discussed the Japanese and their part in WWII. At the conclusion of the flight, he like my dad and thousands like them have learned to forgive.

I do not feel strange every time Dec. 7 rolls around or when I drive my Toyota any more than some person driving his Bimmer/Mercedes on date Germany attacked Poland. What I do feel is respect and to honor the men who died that day. For what they sacrificed, we are enjoying today. War is hell!

The truth let it be known, that we were suckered into WWII by Churchill and his accomplice FDR. History of the time shows England was hanging on by their fingernails against the Germans and was trying to get the U.S. involved. Churchill and Roosevelt concocted a plan to get the U.S. directly involved in the fighting by cattle prodding on the 3rd leg of the axis powers(Italy was insignificant). Their plan worked and the rest is History. I had a very excellent History Professor in college who didn't buy what they printed in the books.