You know, my friend, when one claims so stubbornly and ahistorically moral high ground, the only way to beat them is to climb even higher in rhetoric to make their insincerity even more manifest. Sort of, employing the opponent's discourse as against them by exploiting their weaknesses.
We should not let all the beautiful terms (freedom, liberty, justice, good vs. bad, city on the hill, etc.) to be monopolized by the US.
LOL.
The greater sovereignty Japan achieves, the greater the need will get to find similar soft tactics and strategies to counter ceaseless manipulative moves against you.