@Aichan
couldn't care less about other countries's opinion of them
You ever talked to Japanese people? This reminds me of a joke, of sorts, my boss (Japanese guy) told me once about different countries views on elephants. Went something like this.
The Germans want to know how humans and elephants can coexist.
The French want to know how elephants have sex.
The Chinese want to know how they can eat elephants.
And the Japanese want to know, what does elephants think about Japan.
I've not had many conversations with Japanese people where they didn't ask my opinion of Japan. Most people will say they like stuff Japanese food, manga, trains being on time or whatnot and the Japanese person will then smile and nod and agree that 'yes, isn't Japan just the best?'. It's some kind of self-esteem thing on a level I haven't seen in many other places.
@HellSatan
How convenient. I feel that's like trading for a resource in Civ and now the entire country immediately has access to it. No mentions of the amount of oil and coal in the WN I suppose?