>>But - did Japan actually technically 'invade' the USA?
No, they just dropped a few bombs that happened to hit some aircraft and warships loitering at Pearl Harbor. ;-)
Seriously, that's a fine state you call home. Could *not* believe how Honolulu has redefined itself as a cosmopolitan first world city attracting planeloads of wealthy Asian tourists who spend and spend. Meanwhile you can escape the Australian sand on Waikiki with a short drive to the North Shore that is as glorious as ever. You are so lucky..
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
