"Yeah, a lot, during and after the Second World War. I'm not historian, but we were on different sides, their military did some pretty dirty things to ours, we did some catastrophically more dirty things in return that just kept being dirty, but then there was a treaty, and relations have improved a lot since then. I don't know the specifics, I don't really follow politics, but I know we're allowed to visit, and we've got a few military bases there, but we didn't conquer the place."

He nods. "I'm pretty sure we get a lot of Japanese exchange students, and we import a lot of their pop culture things."