May 5, 2015
The relationship Japan has already developed with the United States and to a lesser extent with the other Western industrialized nations is the first example in world history of broad and deep cooperation on the basis of equality across the major cultural and racial lines that divide the world. This relationship is far from perfect or complete, but it is the beginning of a type of relationship that some day must embrace all the peoples of the world.
The Japanese by Edwin O. Reischauer