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Message: [QUOTE="What's His Face, post: 257579, member: 125725"] Incorrect. Many Americans had visceral opinions on Japan in the mid-80's to mid-90's. This was a period of time where Japan invested heavily in American businesses and properties - everything from Sony Picture Studios to buying controlling interest in sports teams, land, etc. Something MANY Americans deeply resented, especially as the goods Japan was selling was just as good (if not better) than American-made products for a fraction of the price (especially electronics and cars). This is also a time where the controlling generation, Baby Boomers, were brought-up on tales told on their pappy's knee of World War II and thus had certain "opinions" on the Japanese side of things. Not to mention the constant media blitz about Japan buying this-and-that, etc. (but ignoring how it was England who was investing & taking control the most in America by a massive margin). If you want to get an idea on the average mindset of America at the time, watch the first...20-minutes or so of a Harrison Ford movie, "The Mosquito Coast." Blatantly Japanese items just would not be sold in American retailers. SEGA got away with little issue as the name doesn't sound Japanese. Nintendo had a "bit" of public opinion issues at first, but slapping "of America" on their corporate US name and the "Nintendo Seal of Quality" (which meant the game actually worked on the system) helped to mitigate this, as did every corpo head seen in US media for Nintendo was White, like Howard Lincoln. Today all this seems silly, and it IS. But back then? It just didn't happen. Heck, even anime that made it to US airwaves (Speed Racer/Mach GoGoGo, Voltron/Beast King GoLion, Robotech/Macross/etc.) mostly had their Japanese identities stripped as much as possible & re-written entirely for US audiences. [/QUOTE]

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