re: #471 Alouette

My husband visited Japan about 40 years ago (as a tourist, not military), and learned “buttah kusay.” He just thought it was odd that of all the various aromas, Europeans should be associated with “butter stink”

Which makes this strange: In the moive “Go For Broke” about the American 442nd, a unit of Americans of Japanese ancestry, the troops called themselves Butterheads (or weren’t offended if others called them that). I presume, given when the movie was made and that the actors were largely veterans of the 442nd, that the term was really used.

The review I read said that ironically, the movie was very popular in Japan.