Japan with its 5 trillion dollar economy and it's cultural exports of anime, manga, etc will never be invaded by China. America and NATO will protect them forever. Plus with their ingenuity, if America did leave them, they'd develop ballistic nuclear warheads designed to keep the Chinese in check. Invade and Beijing and Shanghai become toast. Mutual destruction.百年國恥 (Century of humiliation)
The century of humiliation, also known as the hundred years of national humiliation, is the term used in China to describe the period of intervention and subjugation of the Chinese Empire and the Republic of China by Western powers, Russia and Japan in between 1839 and 1949.[1]
These guys have a whole name for it and are still mad lol, the Chinese hold grudges. Especially with Japan, they did them the dirtiest. China was just minding its own business, Japan built a railway near them, blew it up on purpose, blamed it on China just so they could have an excuse to Invade. They invaded China and brutalized the people of China when they were at their weakest state. You just know when the Chinese get the chance they’ll return the humiliation ten fold.
Rape of Nanjing (1937-1938)
The Rape of Nanjing was one of the most horrendous violations of human rights in world history. The Nanjing massacre consisted of the mass rape and murder of approximately 300,000 Chinese civilians and wholesale destruction of the city. To add insult to injury, the Japanese then made e city of Nanjing the capital of their puppet government in China. Decades later the Chinese civilians were still suffering from the aftermath and relations with Japan are still strained to this day.
This is why Japan so desperately clutches on to the thighs of the US. They know they’ll get abused 10 times worse than they abused China, and it’s only a matter of time.