Editing Inspector Japp (section)

==Portrayals==
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The role of Japp is played by [[Philip Jackson (actor)|Philip Jackson]] in the British TV series ''[[Agatha Christie's Poirot]]'', where [[Hercule Poirot]]'s character is played by [[David Suchet]]. Before Suchet took on the role of Poirot, he had previously played Japp himself in the [[1985 in film|1985 film]] ''[[Thirteen at Dinner (film)|Thirteen at Dinner]]'', where [[Peter Ustinov]] played Poirot. Philip Jackson portrays Japp as working-class and 'thoroughly British', not very intelligent but an extremely diligent, canny and active police officer with a good but rather dry sense of humour, characteristics which often serve as a perfect [[Foil (literature)|foil]] to Poirot's personality, who is intelligent, elegant, upper-class but rather slow in movements and of a very serious nature.

In the same television series, Japp is already a Chief Inspector in the first episode,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b79c087d2 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710162025/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b79c087d2 |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 July 2018 |publisher=British Film Institute |title=The Adventure of the Clapham Cook (1989) |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref> his full name is James Harold Japp according to the episode "The Chocolate Box",<ref>{{cite web |url=https://subslikescript.com/series/Agatha_Christies_Poirot-94525/season-5/episode-6-The_Chocolate_Box |website=Subs like Script |title=The Chocolate Box – Full Transcript |access-date=20 July 2020}}</ref> and he has been promoted to Assistant Commissioner by the time he appears in the episode "The Big Four".<ref>{{cite book |title=Agatha Christie on Screen |page=278 |last=Aldridge |first=Mark |date=21 October 2016 |publisher=Springer |isbn=9781137372925 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UeZODQAAQBAJ}}</ref>

Philip Jackson is also one of the actors who played Japp in the [[BBC Radio]] adaptations of Poirot stories, produced contemporaneously with the Suchet TV series and starring [[John Moffatt (actor)|John Moffatt]] as Poirot.<ref>{{Cite web |title=BBC Programme Index |url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d2d86d6c4de84ea8b42315276f4693bc |access-date=2022-11-21 |website=genome.ch.bbc.co.uk|date=22 April 2000 }}</ref> In the radio dramatisations, Inspector Japp was played by [[Norman Jones (actor)|Norman Jones]] in ''Lord Edgware Dies'' (1992), by Philip Jackson in ''The ABC Murders'' (2000), ''Death In The Clouds'' (2003), ''One, Two, Buckle My Shoe'' (2004), and ''The Mysterious Affair at Styles'' (2005), and by [[Bryan Pringle]] in ''Peril at End House'' (2000).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/0f6b170d980d43608e1d8c18272b3262|title=Lord Edgware Dies (1992)|website=BBC Genome: Radio Times|publisher=BBC|date=2020|access-date=31 March 2020}} See also other episode listings on BBC Genome.</ref>

Japp is played by [[Melville Cooper]] in the [[Black Coffee (1931 film)|1931 film adaptation]] of Christie's stage play [[Black Coffee (play)|''Black Coffee'']].

As the inspector's name is spelled similarly and pronounced in the same way as the ethnic slur [[Jap]], he was renamed {{Nihongo|Inspector Sharp|シャープ警部|Shaapu-kebu}} in the Japanese [[anime]] series ''[[Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple]]'' ([[NHK]], 2004).

In the ''[[Professor Layton]]'' series of puzzle video games for the [[Nintendo DS]] and [[Nintendo 3DS]], the fictional [[Scotland Yard]] chief inspector Chelmey appears visually and contextually as a comically incompetent caricature of Inspector Japp as played by Philip Jackson.

A retired Japp is played by [[Kevin McNally]] in ''[[The ABC Murders (TV series)|The ABC Murders]]'' (2018); the series starts with Japp dying of a heart attack, and a recurring sub-plot is Inspector Crome, Japp's protege, expressing distrust of Poirot as he feels that working with Poirot ruined Japp's career.