Editing Sayonara (section)

== Legacy ==
Alongside the less successful ''[[Japanese War Bride]]'' (1952) and ''[[The Teahouse of the August Moon (film)|The Teahouse of the August Moon]]'' (1956), ''Sayonara'' is considered by some scholars to have increased racial tolerance in the United States by openly discussing [[interracial marriages|interracial marriage]].<ref name="Kovner2012">{{cite book|author=Sarah Kovner|title=Occupying Power: Sex Workers and Servicemen in Postwar Japan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Dj7NgDJnno4C&pg=PA65|year=2012|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-8346-0|pages=65–66}}</ref> Other scholars have argued that it is one in a long list of films stereotyping [[Asian Americans|Asian American]] women as "lotus blossom, geisha girl, china doll, or [[The World of Suzie Wong|Suzie Wong]]".<ref name="Chen2010">{{cite book|author=Edith Wen-Chu Chen|title=Encyclopedia of Asian American Issues Today|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R_t3yQiWKQEC&pg=PA644|year=2010|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-34751-1|pages=644–645}}</ref>