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Khuutra said:
That particular word being used for the Japanese carries racial connotations that are sixty to seventy years old.

That's not the big part of it, though. Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Really? Even as a joke that's so tasteless it's mind-numbing.

Some people need to lighten. 

I dont get offended when people call me a Yankee.  Its when they shorten it down to 'Yank' that it becomes fighting words.