It sucks to lose, but if we're going to it might as well be to a country like Japan. It's not like losing to some European or a N.Korea/Middle Eastern team who's gonna talk about how much the US sucks, it's Japan who all in all seems to like us, plus ever since the a-bomb they're pretty harmless. I kinda compare them to losing to Iowa State, you don't want to lose to them but if you're going to lose to somebody they might as well be it because they know that 9 out of 10 times you'll actully kick their ass and they're so beat down by natural disasters they to happy to just be alive to gloat on the 1 out of 10 they do win.