I wish I could say, "No." I wish I knew how.
Meanwhile, 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of "The Japan That Can Say No," a bestselling collection of essays penned by Sony co-founder Akio Morita and author Shintaro Ishihara, then a Diet member, now governor of Tokyo and always an in-your-face-ist regarding almost every ism on the don't-touch list. Like racism, nationalism, sexism and so on.
The book's premise was that Japan needed to be more independent of U.S. influence. Japanese business and government simply needed to say, "No," to American pressure.