Notes: Words in bold added during the last update. Below youll find a ton of completely random words and phrases - all translated from Japanese to English.

So at the end of the day, the general understanding is that, no matter which way a listener may decide to interpret “Turning Japanese”, the narrator of the song is left in some type of unfavorable state due to the absence of the woman he loves. If learning by standard categories is no fun, then youll love this list. Or as stated above, dude is going mad due to missing his sweetheart. According to Fenton, it “is all the clichés about angst and youth and turning into something you didn’t expect to”. According to him, he could have basically named it after any nationality – so long as it sounded cool. He also went on to explain what the phrase turning Japanese really represents. However, as with the self-gratification theory, Fenton debunked this idea also. So conclusively this track has been labeled in different ways, even as being racist.

Indeed Fenton has also stated that the narrator is “going slowly crazy”. So statements such as the aforementioned can actually be allusions to his madness. feeling antisocial or something of the sort due to his overall depression. That would also likely explain why he called “everyone around” him “a total stranger”, as in he has a general reluctance towards socializing given his present state. However its writer, The Vapors’ Dave Fenton, went on to discredit this idea as an American misinterpretation of the lyrics. Rather the singer has lost his girlfriend and is suffering as a result. So viewed from that perspective, the aforementioned pic he has of her serves as the medium which most-blatantly conjures feelings of missing her. And the “cell” he appears to be in would be tantamount to a mental prison, i.e. We also say: Jaa mata, Ja matane, Jaa matane, Jaane, Dewa mata.etc.

Ja japanese meaning