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Kung Fu Fighting was the bane of my life as a karateka in the UK at the time.

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Sep 30Liked by Leon

Should have also mentioned this hit which came out a year earlier.

“Turning Japanese” by The Vapors.

https://youtu.be/nGy9uomagO4?si=vx8jGuhJOO2BWT0J

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Another non-favourite of mine. And I thought I'd erased it from my memory - Cheers.

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Ahh, this completely escaped my memory

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Here we have an American-born Chinese first speaking French and then using Japanese music (played with Japanese instruments) on an electronic bed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvGvQZvD4hk

Is that cultural appropriation?

I don't know, and I don't care.

I love it.

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“Japanese Boy” was included on the soundtrack (and an in-world radio station) for GTA: Vice City (2002), set in a fictionalized 1980s. I don’t know if that raised the song’s historical profile at all — perhaps only for a certain age group — but it stuck around long past its expiration date.

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