i'm surprised that something that i thought i knew for sure from 80's that is under consideration. Well guys, my opinion about the meaning of the song is that is about prostitution, not male, but regular female prostitution. Everybody who's more than 50 years old, knows that in 80's while you were nobody at US or europe, you were somebody very importand in japan, just for the reason that you are from west, due to the maddness of japaness for the west culture. This phenomenon happened to many aspects of the socity, from the rock bands up το hookers. Hundreds of girls where exported from europe and US in order to became anonymus whores for few days or weeks in japan and come back home a little bit more rich. In 80s a couple of hours with a beautifull european or US girl was several hundreds of dollars. That is the real meaning of the song Big in Japan...
i'm surprised that something that i thought i knew for sure from 80's that is under consideration. Well guys, my opinion about the meaning of the song is that is about prostitution, not male, but regular female prostitution. Everybody who's more than 50 years old, knows that in 80's while you were nobody at US or europe, you were somebody very importand in japan, just for the reason that you are from west, due to the maddness of japaness for the west culture. This phenomenon happened to many aspects of the socity, from the rock bands up το hookers. Hundreds of girls where exported from europe and US in order to became anonymus whores for few days or weeks in japan and come back home a little bit more rich. In 80s a couple of hours with a beautifull european or US girl was several hundreds of dollars. That is the real meaning of the song Big in Japan...