Where have Japanese nationalism and pride gone?

The Japanese hatred for the Americans run very deep. It was not just the dropping of two atomic bombs and the carpet bombing of Tokyo and Japanese cities. It was not just the mass detention and imprisonment of Japanese in America during WW2. It was not even the dismantling of the Japanese industrial might that was powering Japan to become the number one economy in the world. It is not even the military occupation of Japan till today. 

Japan was on its way to conquer and rule over Asia in WW2. All the Asian and Southeast Asian countries were already under the control of Japan except for China. Japan also defeated Russia and was in the process of taking over the whole of China.

The Americans broke the Japanese dream of ruling Asia and the whole world and imprison Japan as a colonised state till today. The Japanese Empire became history. The Japanese Emperor was humiliated and almost became a prisoner of war. This is America's historical debt to Japan.

As a proud martial race with Imperial ambition to rule the world, it is a big disgrace and embarrassment for Japan to be still under military occupation and not a free and independent country to follow its national ambition. And with a Constitution imposed by the Americans to prevent Japan to have a normal armed forces like any country. Japan's huge military force can only be called a Self Defence Force, only for self defence and not for offensive, cannot engage in wars of conquest. Japan and South Korea are the last two American protectorate and semi colony in the world.

The Americans would now use the China as the threat, China as the common enemy to keep the Japanese in check. The Japanese just play along, hoping to use the Americans to fight China for them. Their ultimate aim is full independence as a proud nation state, not as an American colony in any guise.

The Americans know the Japanese well and would make sure that they would not lose their control over the Japanese. A mistake or negligence by the Americans is all the Japanese need to be free from American control. They will keep bowing and smiling to the Americans to keep them at ease as if the Japanese are totally won over, no more fighting spirit, no more samurai spirit, obedient and willingly be a subservient colony of the American Empire.

Another too good to be true situation. It is dangerous to think that the Japanese have lost their pride in themselves and their past military history of conquest. It is dangerous to think that the Japanese are contented with the present state of being, kowtowing to the Americans and be pushed and coerced by the Americans at the Americans' fancy. Trump is now demanding Japan to cough out US$500b to support the American economy. Trump is also demanding Japan to pay another US$1.4b a year for the American military presence in Japan, to control Japan in the name of defending Japan. This is American arrogance and Trump's stupidity thinking that the Japanese want to be protected by the Americans and want the American bases and soldiers to be in Japan.

The vigour and cries of Japanese nationalism and militancy have not been heard for decades. It would appear that the Japanese have lost their marbles and have accepted their fate to be under the American military occupation for good. Is this true, that the war cries of the militant Japanese are history and the new Japanese are polite and bowing and bowing businessmen? Why would they build a Self Defence Force that is second only to China, with aircraft carriers in disguise by buying vertical takeoff F35s take do not need the runway for takeoff horizontally? Why developed nuclear bomb capabilities without acknowledging that they are in possession of nuclear bombs?