Muslim" isn't a country. Moreover, the Japanese had been demonstrating to the world what they were about. The US was enamored of China at the time, reading Pearl Buck and listening to Madame Chiang.
The Panay Incident might very well have started a war by itself. And certainly there was no sympathy for the Japanese after the Rape of Nanking. There was even a contest between two junior Japanese officers to see which could murder more Chinese with his katana, followed in the Japanese press by their readership in much the same way as Americans kept up with major league baseball standings.
You'd have to be a complete moron without a hint of morals to be an American with any sympathy for the Japanese at that time.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.