Right. Because American audiences were averse to watching movies in a language that was non-English, Raymond Burr's character was added. It reinforced their ignorance. On top of that, now audiences had a white savior character that they could latch onto while watching a movie filled with Japanese people, who just over a decade ago were rounded up and put in internment camps by the U.S. government.

The American version was funny to Americans. On the other hand, the Japanese version was somber.