Japan Focus has a long discussion of differing views of the Japanese economic slowdown and our own. My own, shorter, take on this from a year ago is here.

Japan Focus also has a long discussion of Japanese discourses on WWII and the US-Japan relationship. It’s fairly raw stuff, and very long. If you do read it, make sure you get through the whole thing: just reading the first parts without the rest would be too depressing (also a false impression).