LH - I certainly am glad that I went to school on the Sunset Coast...I don't think I would have like the New York school system you describe. I do find it hard to believe that your schools did not, at that late date--5 to 15 years after the war--differentiate between militarists of Japan and Nazis of Germany and their respective general populations. The immediate post-war population was, afterall, the wartime population.
But you were there and I was not.