Hello Ward,

>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.

Movies with swords sell much better in Japan than movies with guns.

>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.

Why would a people who lost a war want to talk about having lost
a war?  Winning is so much more fun.  Don't believe me?  Just ask
the man with the orange hair.  He knows what he is talking about.
Even if nobody else does.

>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".

Back home, they thought it was a video game.  Kind of like Pokemon.

>Movies about the war in Europe sell better, the Japanese know the Nazis were
> bad business, even the Germans hate the Nazis.

Times are changing in Germany.  Chancellor Merkel is leaving,
having been forced to take an early exit by the far right.  There
are youthful white nationalist terror groups gaining in number,
whose very slogans mimic those of the third reich.

It won't be long before all of Europe begins chanting "Sieg Heil!"

--Lee

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