History Literature / RisingSun

** In the film, Ishiguro recounts how the U.S. government blocked the sale of a major corporation to the Japanese out of concern over "foreign ownership," then turned around and sold that same major corporation to the French.

** [[SparedByTheAdaptation Averted]] for Ishiguro in the film, in which the Nakamoto Corporation demotes him and permanently puts him in a cubicle back in Japan. Connor explains how this is effectively a FateWorseThanDeath for Ishiguro.

* BrokenAesop: The story (both the novel and the film) can't seem to decide whether to treat the Japanese positively or not. John Connor favors Japanese culture over the West and often looks like the smartest person in the room next to bigoted cops like Graham. But the Japanese are composed of [[StrawCharacter Straw Characters]] that appear haeful, corrupt and decadent by design, and there are [[AuthorAvatar Author Avatars]] galore about how the Japanese are taking over America and turning it into a third-world economic war zone.

* BrokenAesop: The story (both the novel and the film) can't seem to decide whether to treat the Japanese positively or not. Captain John Connor favors Japanese culture over the West and often looks like the smartest person in the room next to bigoted cops like Graham. But the Japanese are composed of [[StrawCharacter Straw Characters]] that appear haeful, corrupt and decadent by design, and there are [[AuthorAvatar Author Avatars]] galore about how the Japanese are taking over America and turning it into a third-world economic war zone.

* BrokenAesop: The story (both the novel and the film) can't seem to decide whether to treat the Japanese fairly or not. Captain John Connor views Japanese culture as superior to Western culture and often looks like the smartest person in the room compared to bigoted cops like Graham. But the Japanese are composed of [[StrawCharacter Straw Characters]] that appear corrupt and decadent, and there are [[AuthorAvatar Author Avatars]] galore about how the Japanese are taking over America and turning it into a third-world economic war zone.

* BrokenAesop: The story (both the novel and the film) can't seem to decide whether to treat the Japanese fairly or not. Captain John Connor views Japanese culture as superior to Western culture and often looks like the smartest person in the room as he calls out bigoted statements by Graham and other cops. But the Japanese are composed of [[StrawCharacter Straw Characters]] that appear corrupt and decadent, and there are [[AuthorAvatar Author Avatars]] galore about how the Japanese are taking over America and turning it into a third-world economic war zone.

* BrokenAesop: The story (both the novel and the film) can't seem to decide whether to treat the Japanese fairly or not. Captain John Connor views Japanese culture as superior to Western culture and often looks like the smartest person in the room as he calls out bigoted statements by Graham and other cops. But the Japanese are composed of StrawCharacters that appear corrupt and decadent, and there are AuthorAvatars galore about how the Japanese are taking over America and turning it into a third-world economic war zone.

** Theresa is half-black, half-Japanese, and is all too happy to side with the Americans out of pure spite from the horrendous upbringing she suffered in Japan, as racist kids in a fairly enclosed and traditional village would torment her.

''Rising Sun'' is a 1992 internationally best-selling novel by Creator/MichaelCrichton about a murder in the Los Angeles headquarters of Nakamoto, a fictional Japanese corporation. The book was published by Alfred A. Knopf. It was adapted into a not-so-warmly received film in 1993 which starred SeanConnery, WesleySnipes, and {{Mako}}.

''Rising Sun'' is a 1992 internationally best-selling novel by Creator/MichaelCrichton about a murder in the Los Angeles headquarters of Nakamoto, a fictional Japanese corporation. The book was published by Alfred A. Knopf.

* ConspiracyThriller: A new variant - the conspiracy "techno"thriller.

* InscrutableOrientals: Several times, Crichton stresses that the Japanese are completely incompatible, alien, and hostile by Western standards.

* TokenMinority[=/=]TokenTwoferMinority: Theresa is not only half-black and half-Japanese, she's also of Burakumin [[note]]a caste of Japanese considered sinful and impure due to their work dealing with death and going against Buddhist/Shinto purity[[/note]] descent ''and'' is physically crippled, missing a hand from a birth defect - both of which are ''very'' impure by Japanese standards.

''Rising Sun'' is a 1992 internationally best-selling novel by MichaelCrichton about a murder in the Los Angeles headquarters of Nakamoto, a fictional Japanese corporation. The book was published by Alfred A. Knopf.