A cover article in Newsweek proclaimed, "Japan Invades Hollywood."
His success was so immediate that he invaded Hollywood in 1927, where his dietary views quickly became a movie colony craze.
Headlines like "Japan Invades Hollywood" show how quickly emotions can spiral out of control.
Professor Dower finds traces of those attitudes in present-day portrayals of Japan's economic triumphs - as in the headlines shouting, "Japan Invades Hollywood."
"Japan Invades Hollywood," said Newsweek in a cover showing the Columbia lady dressed in a kimono.
"Japan Invades Hollywood" read the cover of Newsweek.
"Japan Invades Hollywood," was the cover of a Newsweek, with the Columbia Pictures statue draped in a kimono.
It's like the recent Newsweek headline 'Sony Invades Hollywood.'
In a parody of the movie company's symbol, a Newsweek magazine cover portrayed a kimono-clad Asian woman holding aloft a torch, next to bold type that declared "Japan Invades Hollywood."
The same cover in the United States carried a different headline, "Japan Invades Hollywood."