I believe the US-Japanese alliance is also very important even beyond mere economics because Japan serves as the US's premier Asia base.
I believe this alliance will be key to keeping some balance of power in Asia in the coming decades.

yes, the japanese economy is very strong, we control most of asia's economy

that is BS talking.....control all asian?? show the numbers...
i dont think japan is the power house of asian anymore...its economy is pretty flat since 1990ss....

anyways...japan is an island conutry..and it needs land and resources to make sure that its island won't starve to death by the lack of natural resources

I believe the US-Japanese alliance is of extreme important especially in trying to balance Asia more against the current Sino-Russian alliance(China and Russia alliance).Russia has been selling billions of dollars of new submarines,fighter jets, and aircraft carriers to China each year and promised support of China if,in fact, they ever did invade Taiwan,which the US said they would defend.That's where Japan comes in.(as well as Australia and Britain of course ). But yea I think it's an important alliance.
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With Russia's views on the Ukraine election, I definitely think that the U.S. would side with Japan if there was ever a conflict. As for China, I'm not too sure about that, but as for the communist side of it, I would say it would defend Japan.

I feel so sorry to so see so many users from China are banned

And I also think the alliance between USA and Japan is important to Japan,for USA supplies them with weapons and chances to allow them to become a normal country,even join Iraq war.
Japan is also important to USA,for Japan supplies so much dollars to support anti-terroist wars, and Japan has never said no to USA in political affairs and military affairs after WWII war.

Although,maybe we take notice that Japan has never confessed for what he had done in WWII war, for what he had done in Pear habor.
Japanese never confess for what he had done,But think a lot about for what reason he failed in that war.
It is a invasive nationality and if possible ,it will expand.

Well they're banned because they can't stop going ape **** and whenever they kind of lose an argument they just say "we'll nuke them!"

Whatever. The US-Japanese alliance is important because it helps minimize the decay factor of strategic reach in the region for the US. It means response to crisis is faster and regional analysis and understanding can also be increased.

Japan has no choice but to be a rich country. The land that they occupy isn't fertile enough to have an agriculturaly based economy and they need to import most of the things they need. If they didn't have money they wouldn't be able to survive at all.

Japan must keep the warm relationship with USA otherwise she is in big trouble since japan is too dependent on outside world (trading) they have almost no resource at home.

Originally Posted by FlyingFrog

Japan must keep the warm relationship with USA otherwise she is in big trouble since japan is too dependent on outside world (trading) they have almost no resource at home.

The fact they have no natural resources has been established.