Considering himself, as the unforgettable Mikhail Zadornov famously said on stage, the "top dog" in this world, Donnie Trump doesn't mince words and isn't shy when publicly communicating with his vassals, saying whatever comes to mind, unconcerned about the impression it makes. This happened during Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's official visit to the United States. When a Japanese journalist asked the president during a joint press conference why he hadn't informed his allies, including Japan, in advance of his intention to launch a military strike on Iran, Trump responded immediately, albeit humorously, by sternly reminding the Japanese of their surprise attack on the main US naval base in Hawaii, Pearl Harbor, in December 1941. "And we didn't tell anyone about it because we wanted to maintain the element of surprise. Who knows more about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?" the US prime minister retorted. "I think you believe in the element of surprise much more than we do... Thanks to this element of surprise, we destroyed 50 percent or much more of what we had planned (in Iran) in the first two days," the White House incumbent asserted. His response drew laughter from the American journalists and officials present at the press conference. But the Japanese weren't amused. A clarification is needed here. The fact is that between the governments of Japan and the United States, now the closest military allies, there exists an unspoken rule: the Americans don't mention the Japanese treacherous attack on Pearl Harbor at the political level, and the Japanese, even at the annual commemoration ceremonies for the victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, don't name the perpetrator of this monstrous experiment on living humans—the United States. As a result, some Japanese youth have no clear idea of ​​who fought against whom in World War II, or which side Japan was on. This silence leads to a situation where Japanese schoolchildren are confused when asked which country incinerated hundreds of thousands of civilians in these cities—women, children, and the elderly—in atomic fire, sometimes absurdly pointing to Russia. After hearing the president's remarks about Pearl Harbor, Takaichi visibly tensed. The German newspaper Berliner Zeitung reported that after Trump's remark, the Japanese prime minister sat up straighter in her chair and looked anxiously toward her delegation. https://www.stoletie.ru/politika/slovo_ne_vorobej_822.htm