Editing Japanese in Pop Culture (section)

=1960s=

==JOHNNY MIDNIGHT/SYN/1960==
([[Yuki Shimoda]]) Aki, Japanese houseboy of New York private detective, Johnny Midnight. Aki politely addressed his employer as "Mr Johnny Midnight." 

==DICK TRACY/SYN/1961==
(Cartoon Character) [[Joe Jitsu]] (voice of Mel Blanc/Paul Frees) an oriental policeman working with Dick Tracy nabbing such crooks as Sketch Paree, the Mole, Itchy, Flat Top and Prune Face. His wrist radio call sign was "six, two and even... over and out". This character was an extreme stereotype of an Asian with large protruding teeth, heavy black-rimmed glasses and a derby hat. His slurred vocabulary was filled with "Rots of Ruk" type phrases. 

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==MCHALE'S NAVY/ABC/1962-66==
([[Yoshio Yoda]]) Fuji Kobiaji, an AWOL Japanese soldier living with the American navy crew of the PT Boat # 73 near the Island of Taratupa in the South Pacific during World War II. Fuji, a Seaman Third Class in the Imperial Japanese navy, was the opposite of his zealot kamakazi countrymen. Choosing not to be sent to a POW camp, he befriended his American captors and became their chief cook and bottle washer, living in constant threat of being discovered by outsiders. When Lt. Cdr. McHale and his men were transfered to the European Front (Italy), Fuji followed, incognito, of course. 

==HASHIMOTO/NBC/1963-65==
(Animated Cartoon) [[Hashimoto-san]], a Japanese mouse trained in the art of Judo who was the star of a cartoon within a cartoon (component series) on THE HECTOR HEATHCOTE SHOW/NBC/1963-65. The character which premiered in the theatrical release HASHIMOTO SAN (Oct. 1959) was created by Bob Kuwahara. The cartoon told stories of Japan and featured Hashimoto, his wife and their children Yuriko and Saburo. Voices supplied by John Myers. 

* [https://terrytoons.fandom.com/wiki/Hashimoto-san Hashimoto-san on Terrytoons Fandom]

==MR. BROADWAY/CBS/1964==
([[Lani Miyazaki]]) Toki, an efficient and very beautiful Japanese-American girl Friday employed by successful public relations man. 

==HEY LANDLORD!/NBC/1966-67==
([[Miko Mayama]]) Kyoko Mitsui, a Japanese woman who shares an upstairs apartment with her roommate Timothy "Timmi" Morgan in a ten-room brownstone apartment house owned by Woodrow "Woody" Banner. 

==THE COURTSHIP OF EDDIE'S FATHER/ABC/1969-72==
([[Miyoshi Umeki]]/costar) Mrs. Livingston, a soft-spoken, philosophical Japanese housekeeper who cared for Thomas Corbett, a widower publisher and his small son, Eddie. Sometimes confused by American customs she asked  advice from "Mr. Eddie's father" as she called her employer. In her spare time Mrs. Livingston attended night classes to improve her English. 

==TOM OF T.H.U.M.B/ABC/1966-69==
(Cartoon character) Swinging Jack, an Asian janitor who was accidentally shrunk (with his co-worker Tom) by a miniaturization ray gun thus creating T.H.U.M.B (The Tiny Human Underground Military  Bureau) the government secret service enlisted them to fight crime. Swinging Jack was proficient in the martial arts. 

==STAR TREK/NBC/1966-69==
([[George Takei]]) Hikaru Sulu, a highly efficient Chief Helmsman of Japanese descent stationed aboard the USS Enterprise, a futuristic starship whose mission was to "...seek out new life...to boldly go where no man has gone before." Born in San Francisco in 2237, Sulu's hobbies included collecting old Earth style weapons, fencing and botany. He later assumed command of the Starship Excelsior in the year 2290. In real life George Takei spent part of WWII in a Japanese internment camp. 

==THE QUEEN AND I/CBS/1969==
(Noriyuki [[Pat Morita]]) Barney, an Oriental-American crewman aboard the Amsterdam Queen a travel-weary ocean liner whose owners had decided to sell it for scrap metal.