Thank you York that is very kind. Whilst I could go into a discourse about the widespread cruelties conducted in the name of Bushido culture to the Allies (don't get me started on what they did in China) and how as a result, one should always remain 'pumped' about said victory, in the interests of avoiding digression, I will point out I did not intend this as a racial slur. Indeed the battalion sent by our Japanese allies to serve alongside us in Iraq circa 2004, were referred to in military shorthand and by themselves as 'Jap Bat' and it was in that vein I shortened Japanese.
I therefore apologise fully and will avoid using that terminology again.