MP> > Hollywood needed some plots for new movies ...
 
MP> I am sure that the Pacific Theater could have given them plenty more
MP> storylines, with the beauty of the South Pacific and all.
 
Not really because such movies do not sell well in Japan.
 
When I met my Japanese friend in 1973, he was largely ignorant about Japan's
role in WW2 (and prior to that in China). It wasn't being talked about.
 
And I remember when in 1995 visiting the USS Arizona memorial in Pearl Harbor
the large groups of Japanese tourists visiting there knowing they were going to
 visit the wreck of a large ship that exploded there but having no clue about
the "why".
 
Movies about the war in Europe sell better, the Japanese know the Nazis were
bad business, even the Germans hate the Nazis.
 
 \%/@rd

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