Japan More Sinister Than Germany?

[@goodsir-q3]

I think the different treatment during WW2 comes from the fact that the Japanese were the ones who bombed the US and thus brought us into the war. Before that, the public was very opposed to US involvement in the European theater, and we maintained cozy trade relations to Germany. As far as fear of Japan's economy more than Germany's in the 70s and 80s, it's because Japan was growing much faster than Germany. They passed Germany's PPP GDP in the 70s, and became the world's second biggest economy. In the 80s, many Americans were worried they would pass us too.

[@Kyzyl_Tuva]

Amazing point. The WWII treatment of Germans vs Japanese in America might be related to the much larger number of German immigrants?