User blog comment:SonOfZeus1200/Next Stop China?/@comment-165.166.72.41-20111223171444/@comment-4530765-20111224052405

Remember that Japan was completely restructured after WW2. The USA rebuilt its economy and funded cities and education. Japan then became one of the greatest economic powerhouses. It's culture still is there own but has major Western overtones. So it wouldn't be crazy for the gods to have gone there for a decade maybe during the Cold War.