Monday Music "Turning Japanese" by the Vapors...

I remembered this somg when it came out in 1980, it was one of those quirky songs that made the early 1980's an interesting time for music.  the Early 1980 still had yacht rock. disco, new wave was starting to make its appearance and rock was starting to move past its story telling phase to going back to good old fashioned rock and roll.

"Turning Japanese" is a song released by English band the Vapors, from their album New Clear Days, and the song for which they are best known. The lyric consists mainly of the singer talking about pictures of his love. It prominently features an Oriental riff played on guitar.

Songwriter David Fenton explains: "Turning Japanese is all the clichés about angst and youth and turning into something you didn't expect to."
The band knew they had a success with "Turning Japanese", so much so that they waited until their second single before releasing it, fearing that if they released it as their first, they would become "one-hit wonders". They never matched its success.
The song enjoyed some sales in Japan after its great success in Australia, where it spent two weeks at No. 1 during June 1980.

 "Live" version or the version that they played at some TV Studio with the top 10 songs.

New Clear Days is The Vapors' 1980 debut album containing the UK single "Turning Japanese", which reached No. 3 in the chart in February 1980. A remix of "News at Ten" (named after the well-known ITV news programme), went to No. 45 in July of that year. A third single, a re-recording of "Waiting for the Weekend" that included a horn section, failed to chart. 

 This is the music video I remembered seeing on MTV in the early 1980's.  I had to look for it.  I did notice all the stereotypes from the Samurai swords, to the cameras, the Geisha girls and the fans.  In this day and age the SJW's would have shredded this video.  This proves to me that the people in this day and age didn't have a sense of humor.