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...museum devoted to Asian art should be located in a city where some 40% of the population is of Asian descent, chiefly Chinese and Philippine, but including Indian, Pakistani, Lao, Vietnamese and Korean too. "We also know all of the 30 Mongolians in the Bay Area personally," says Emily Sano, the museum's director...
...name. Japan is a nation of Mickey Mouse fans. Tokyo Disneyland is the world's most popular theme park, and a sister site called Disney Sea is scheduled to open nearby in September. "Pearl Harbor is obviously a subject that must be approached with cultural sensitivity," says Dick Sano, who heads the Tokyo office of Buena Vista International, the Disney unit distributing the film outside...
...attack, Dec. 7. In Japan, the calendar flips to Dec. 8, which was the date of the attack, Tokyo time. Scenes involving Mako, the Japanese-American actor who plays Yamamoto, were rerecorded for Japan. "No one in the States would notice he spoke Japanese with an American accent," says Sano, "but they would here...
...defeat; after it, nothing but victory." For Japan, the statement was deemed overly cocky and has been toned down: "... after it, there was hope of victory." Soldiers in various scenes call their enemies "Jap suckers" and "dirty Japs." In Japan, they're just "Japs." ("We can't change that," Sano shrugs. "That's what they called us back then...
...deemed too cocky for the war's losers; in the Japanese version, it was rerecorded as "after it, there was hope of victory." Soldiers in various scenes call their enemies "Jap suckers" and "dirty Japs." In the Japanese version, they're just "Japs." ("We can't change that," Sano shrugs. "That's what they called us back then...