Interesting Quote
"As for me," Kuroki revealed, "the war was not over inside me. In fact, it has never been brought to a conclusion in this country because responsibility for its heinous actions has never been taken, neither by the emperor, the government nor by the people. Japan today is like a wolf in lamb's clothing. The country is preparing itself, in the name of self-defense, for warlike action. Oh, I vividly remember the day we found out Pearl Harbor was bombed. Of course I was a kid, in occupied China, but you should have seen it. Everybody jumped for joy. And the same
thing was happening all over Japan. Japanese people became convinced, on that day, that they were fighting to liberate Asia from the White Man." -Japanese director Kazuo Kuroki quoted in The Japan Times

The obvious lesson here is to be very careful when your government says it is going "to liberate" another country.
Of course, that's Japan. It could never happen in the US.