I was born in 1955 also, my dad is a WWII vet and my mom was a "Rosie the riveter" at the bomber plant. Hard feelings towards the Japanese remained with their generation well into my youth, and anti-Japanese comments like Frei made were very common - at that time. That's what we grew up with. However, times change and we are now far too old to be repeating what our parents were saying when we were kids, so I find Frei's judgement questionable here.