Word: japs
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...original version, Kate Beckinsale, playing a nurse, says: "Before Doolittle's raid, Americans knew nothing but 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...
...nurse, declares, "Before Doolittle's raid, Americans knew nothing but defeat; after it, nothing but victory." That statement was 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...