As I already said, slavery is further generations removed from US, and we did not believe them to be humans like us. With Japan, it was not as long ago. I am not aware if Japan viewed other asians countries as sub human.
Do companies make profits a priority. Sure
Curious you a liberal?
Slavery per se is long behind us. Racial bias is not. As I said, "separate but equal", which was anything but, was in effect long after WWII was over. The current generation of Japanese are no more responsible for what happened in WWII than you are for what the Nazi's did to the Jews. Oh, that was a European culture thing, wasn't it?
Me a liberal? Not in this lifetime. Libertarian/conservative, yes.
