Let's get serious here. First, the bombing stunts (that's what they were) executed against Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and San Diego did indeed result in the deaths of 112 civilians as noted above. They also served to arouse American ire to levels not known before in history. It was fortunate, in a grim sort of way, that most Japanese-Americans (either Issei or Nisei) had been relocated to the interior when those raids happened: otherwise, it's not inconceivable there would have been several lynchings of innocent people. I digress, however.
When I say America's ire was aroused, the recruiting offices were flooded even more than they were on 8 December 1941. The Armed Forces were actually turning away people for a few weeks, aiming them instead at the shipyards, steel mills, aircraft factories, and so on, with promises (backed up by the then-War Department) that their employment in defense industries would count as rear echelon military service. It's no wonder Henry Kaiser's shipyards were launching ships every hour on the hour (an exaggeration, but you get the idea...) and that bombers were getting cranked out like Chevrolets fifteen years earlier.
The stunts were foolhardy, as noted, since the Japanese outran their supply ships and turned out to be sitting ducks while getting towed home: no wonder so many ships of the IJN wound up on the Pacific floor, and that it made island hopping that much simpler. Also no wonder that fire-bombing on a scale that made Dresden look like a campfire happened as it did. By the time the US had a working prototype of a nuclear weapon in the early months of 1945, and let Japan know about it through such back channels as still existed, it was no wonder they gave up when the ultimatum came across: surrender now or Tokyo--or what's left of it--ceases to exist, and that includes the emperor. Even as fanatic as the Japanese militarists were, they had reached a breaking point.
Today, Japan is, in essence, a US colony, and has been for more than 70 years. While occupation ended during the Dewey presidency in the early 1960s, the transformation had been well under way. Don't forget that English is one of two official languages in Japan, and is coming to dominate. Japan also no longer drives on the left; the currency is inextricably linked to the US dollar; the government (for better or worse) is a republic rather than a parliamentary system; Hiroshima or Nagasaki are all but indistinguishable from cities of equivalent size on the eastern seaboard of the US, and that Japan is a major consumer of American-made goods.
While the '40s and '50s weren't good times to be Japanese, that hasn't seemed to be the case for more than a generation: witness how many Japanese baseball players have come to the US, for example, led by Ike Suzuki, who came to the Phillies in the 1990s. He essentially muscled Lenny Dykstra out of center field, and enabled the Phils to win back-to-back-to-back NL pennants in 1993, 1994, and 1995.