"You mean Japan started the war"?
Depends on where you want to start. They did bomb Pearl Harbor, but only after Roosevewlt cut off shipments to Japan, ordered them out of Southeast Asia and the islands, but what tore the rag off the bush was when he froze all Japan's assets in this country. That was an insult that they could not bear. They would rather die than "lose face". I'm not saying they were justified, just that in their minds they had damn good reason to fight.
Anyone who has read THE UGLY AMERICAN knows how we deal with other cultures.

At last, the revisionists have decided that the Kamakazi pilots did not really want to commit suicide, but the peer pressure made them do it. That makes a lot more sense than the story were all familiar with, that they chose to die for the Emperor. I'm usually suspicious of revisionists, but in this case they make sense.