From Japan Times:An Australian intelligence agent in Tokyo many years ago was asked what was his nation's essential interest in Japan. Without hesitation, he said: "To keep Japan onside." He explained Australia did not want Japan to slide back into the disastrous aggression of the 1930s and '40s.
A senior U.S. military officer in Japan said more recently that "U.S.-Japan relations are built on a solid alliance." He added, however, "This is a really high-maintenance alliance," meaning Americans had to nurture relations with Japan daily to prevent Tokyo from sliding back into the passive and pacifist mode that has marked much of the postwar era.
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