You could call it cultural change

[Redfish]

What would happen, actually, is that Japan would be bombed into the Stone Age within a week.

Nope, Obama would promise them several billions of dollars if they would just say that they like us. Then he would blame Bush for the attack and say that anyone who called them japs was a racist. He would offer them Hawaii in exchange all the mean things that the US had done in the past and would build a shrine to hiro hito.