Japan can't send warships to the Strait of Hormuz because America wrote the constitution that forbids it — so demanding destroyers now is a contradiction of Washington's own making. Roughly 90 percent of Japan's oil transits Hormuz, yet Article 9, drafted by American lawyers in 1947, legally bars the very military action Trump is demanding. Takaichi brought cherry trees and goodwill; the alliance deserves better than Pearl Harbor jokes and impossible ultimatums.