YMMV / Judomaster

• Values Dissonance:
  • Racist terms are used regularly for the Japanese.
  • Mountain Storm, a sumo-wrestler, is called an ape and a "missing link" by allies and opponents alike despite just being a large Japanese man.
  • The entire premise is that a white American learned Judo and Karate in at most a month and is now able to defeat any and all Japanese martial artists, also every time he faces them a big deal is made out of how honorable he is while his opponents aren't.
  • No actual propaganda broadcasters went by "Tokyo Rose", and its use as the name of the already decades out of date stereotype of the seductive Dragon Lady propaganda broadcaster is especially appalling given the outcome of the public application of the name (and stereotype) to the real-life US citizen Iva Toguri. Would have been passable if it was just the Americans referring to the character that way, but it was the other way around.^note  Iva ended up trapped in Japan for the duration of the war and refused to renounce her American citizenship, risked her life to sneak food to POWs, and was forced to do the broadcasts in order to have enough money to survive. Her propaganda broadcasts were written by American and Australian POWs and were interpreted by GIs who heard them as someone who was on their side rather than allied with Imperial Japan. At the end of the war, she was arrested and then released after it was determined she had committed no wrongdoing. Then when she tried to return home she was charged with treason, had her citizenship revoked, and spent six years in prison because a gossip columnist and several others roused up fervor over her being "Tokyo Rose", originally a generic name used to refer to the women making English language Japanese propaganda broadcasts.
  • It is highly unlikely a group of armed Japanese soldiers would react to a child throwing dirt in someone's face and running into the jungle by considering the kid a ghost or ninja and then stand around being too terrified to go after him. Because "he's a ninja", which is, according to this book, more terrifying to a Japanese person than having their boss point a gun at them.