Japanese military response to 55 Cancri

With all due respect to Big Brother, I feel it is against our best interest as a planet to get involved in an arms race with the aliens from 55 Cancri.

1945, Japan suffered the unfortunate tragedy of two atomic bombings.  Our cities were decimated and hundreds of thousands of citizens died because we defied a country with technologically advanced weaponry.  It is my belief that we are now in an intergalactic, rather than international, crisis of a similar nature.  The aliens that sent the message from 55 Cancri are clearly technologically superior: they have sent us schematics for a device whose purpose our top scientists can not understand; they have sent us a repeating message consisting of all prime numbers; and they have managed to bend time and space to receive and send messages much faster than the speed of light.

Building weaponry and preparing for war with the 55 Cancri beings is irresponsible.  It is our job as leaders to protect our populace from undue harm, and we cannot afford to make enemies of unknown and technologically superior beings.  Furthermore, if we should not need to go to war with the 55 Cancri, we will have created thousands of weapons which can only be used for human destruction.

Rather than position ourselves as both a technologically inferior and war-mongering planet, I strongly suggest our nations cooperate on building this alien machine.  We should do everything in our power to make allies of these aliens lest they destroy us, or worse, lest we destroy ourselves with the rise of global military powers.

Mr. Satoshi Morimoto
Minister of Defense
Japan