I don&#x27;t know what the Japanese felt, but I think the US maybe was about as hegemonic as Japan, Britain, Russia, Germany, France. It wouldn&#x27;t hurt for US citizens to know these bullet points in their history that relate to Japan&#x27;s neighborhood: Perry&#x27;s expedition to Japan, the Spanish American war, but especially the Phillipine Insurrection, the Anti-Imperialist League, the Boxer Rebellion, the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and the Yangtze Patrol, and its context.