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Big in Japan

Big In Japan may refer to:

Music

  • Big in Japan (phrase), a phrase to describe Western celebrities that have been successful in Japan
  • Big in Japan (band), a 1970s punk band from England
  • Big in Japan: Live in Tokyo 2010, an album by Klaus Schulze

    • Songs

  • "Big in Japan" (Alphaville song), a 1984 song by Alphaville
  • "Big in Japan" (Martin Solveig song), a 2011 song by Martin Solveig
  • "Big in Japan", a song from Tom Waits' album Mule Variations
  • Big In Japan (Big In Japan song), a song by the band Big in Japan

    • Other

  • Bikicsunáj, a 2010 Internet meme appeared in Hungary, when a security guard sang "Big in Japan" with poor English
  • I Survived a Japanese Game Show, a 2008-2009 American TV show originally titled Big in Japan
  • Fantastic Four / Iron Man: Big in Japan, a comic book by Seth Fisher
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    Big in Japan (Martin Solveig song)

    "Big in Japan" is a song performed by French DJ and record producer Martin Solveig and Canadian synthpop band Dragonette from Solveig's fifth studio album, Smash (2011). It features vocals from Japanese girl group Idoling!!!. The song was written and produced by Solveig, and released as the album's third single on 24 October 2011. "Big in Japan" has charted in Belgium, Canada and the United Kingdom.

    Music video

    The music video for "Big in Japan" premiered on 18 October 2011. The video was shot just one week before the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. It closes with the caption: "This video was shot before the tragic events of March 2011. We share the grief of our Japanese friends and admire their courage throughout these difficult times. With this in mind and together, there are more reasons than ever to be Big In Japan!"

    Track listings

  • Digital download
  • "Big in Japan" (feat. Idoling!!!) – 3:06
  • UK digital EP
  • "Big in Japan" (Radio Edit) - 2:46
  • "Big in Japan" (Single Version) - 3:06
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    Big in Japan (Alphaville song)

    "Big in Japan" is the debut single of the German band Alphaville. It is from their 1984 album Forever Young.

    The single was a great success in many countries, including Switzerland, Germany and Sweden. It was also the group's only UK hit, getting to No. 8 on the UK Singles chart. The song also reached number one on the Hot Dance Club Play in December 1984.

    Song and video information

    The title comes from a phrase Big in Japan, which was used to describe Western bands who are popular with Japanese audiences while garnering little attention in their home country.

    In 1986, Marian Gold recalled that "I bought an album of an unknown British band named 'Big in Japan'. As you know, there's a considerable musical market in Japan. If you wanted to become famous, what you should do was to form a hard rock group and then release an album over there; it would definitely sell well... so the story went ... The statement fitted well to my storyline about a couple of drug addicted lovers and moreover provided the title for the prospective song."

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    Japan Pavilion at Epcot

    The Japan Pavilion is a Japan-themed pavilion that is part of the World Showcase, within Epcot at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida. Its location is between The American Adventure and Moroccan Pavilions.

    History

    The Japan Pavilion is one of the original World Showcase pavilions and had been in planning since the late 1970s. Many attractions have been proposed for the pavilion and one show building was built, but left unused. Meet the World was one planned attraction and was a clone of the attraction Meet the World that was once at Tokyo Disneyland. But because management thought that the Japanese film's omission of World War II might upset many Veterans, it was dropped. The show was so close to opening that the show building and rotating platform was built, but not used.

    For years, Imagineers have considered building an indoor roller coaster attraction based on Matterhorn Bobsleds from Disneyland but themed to Japan's Mount Fuji inside a replica of Mount Fuji. At one point, Godzilla or a large lizard attacking guests in their cars was considered. Fujifilm originally wanted to sponsor the ride in the early 1990s, but Kodak, a major Epcot sponsor, convinced Disney to decline the sponsorship. Luckily, the Matterhorn derived design elements survived to be incorporated into Expedition Everest at Disney's Animal Kingdom Park. Another proposed attraction was a walk-through version of "Circle-Vision", in which guests would board and walk through a Shinkansen (bullet train) and look through windows (actually film screens) that showcase Japan's changing landscapes. The train would have shaken and moved like a train traveling through the countryside.

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    Japan in Gulliver’s Travels

    Japan is referred to in Gulliver's Travels, the satire by Jonathan Swift.

    Part III of the book has the account of Lemuel Gulliver's visit to Japan, the only real location visited by him. It is used as a venue for Swift's satire on the actions of Dutch traders to that land. His description reflects the state of European knowledge of the country in the 17th and early 18th centuries, and the tensions due to commercial rivalry between the English and the Dutch at that time.

    Description

    Japan is shown on the map at the beginning of part III, which also shows the island of "Yesso" (i.e. Hokkaido), "Stats island" (Iturup) and "Companys Land" (Urup) to the north. The map also marks the Vries Strait and Cape Patience, though this is shown on the northeast coast of Yesso, rather than as part of Sakhalin, which was little known in Swift’s time. On the island of Japan itself the map shows "Nivato" (Nagato), Yedo, "Meaco" (Kyoto), Inaba and "Osacca" (Osaka)

    The text describes Gulliver's journey from Luggnagg, which took fifteen days, and his landing at "Xamoschi" (i.e. Shimosa} which lies "on the western part of a narrow strait leading northward into a long arm of the sea, on the northwest part of which Yedo, the metropolis stands". This description matches the geography of Tokyo Bay, except that Shimosa is on the north, rather than the western shore of the bay.

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    Japan (Buronson manga)

    Japan (ジャパン) is a Japanese manga written by Buronson (author of Fist of the North Star) and illustrated by Kentaro Miura (author of Berserk). It was published in the Hakusensha magazine Young Animal in 1992 and licensed in English by Dark Horse Comics and released on August 24, 2005.

    Plot

    A yakuza, in love with a TV reporter, comes to Barcelona, Spain, where she's making a reportage on what's the foreigners' idea of the Japanese people, and how Japanese people see themselves; during her speech, she makes a parallel between modern day Japan and the ancient Carthage, saying that the Carthaginians were wiped out by the Romans because of the same attitude Japanese people have nowadays, and because economic superiority brings war, and in the end loses to military strength. Suddenly there's an earthquake, and the ghosts of the Carthaginians bring the group (the two yakuza, the TV reporter and some university students) to the future, when the sea level has increased and all the islands which compose the Japanese archipelago have been submerged; the Japanese people have thus emigrated in the other countries, and they're now scattered around the world, and in particular in Europe, where after the cataclysm a dictatorship has been established, they've become slaves and bandits. Japan is long gone, and Japanese people are lost and oppressed; but among the newcomers, desperate of what they learn, the yakuza, who mostly wishes to protect the woman he dearly loves, has a dream: Japan can be refounded, if the Japanese people come together to fight for it.

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    Radio Stations - Tokyo

    RADIO STATION
    GENRE
    LOCATION
    FM Nirai Okinawa Contemporary Japan
    FM Tachikawa 84.4 Varied Japan
    NHK Radio 1 News Japan
    FM Shiroishi WITH-s Varied Japan
    FM Uruma Oldies,Folk Japan
    FREEBIRD RADIO 1 (Classic Rock) Classic Rock Japan
    Retro AC GAME MUSIC Streaming Radio Electronica Japan
    Soryu's Stream Varied Japan
    BAN-BAN Radio Ambient,Talk Japan
    Retro PC GAME MUSIC Streaming Radio Experimental,Electronica Japan
    ChofuFM 83.8 Varied Japan
    T-WAVE (RAKIRAKI Beach Radio) Varied Japan
    Ozawa Akikazu's Ozawa Akikazu teki KOKORO Varied Japan
    Ohayo Michikami Youzou Sports Varied Japan
    Jp-Stream TOSHIBO'S WEB RADIO Varied Japan
    FM Mot.com, Fukushima Varied Japan
    Radio Shonan Varied,Talk Japan
    MBS News Japan
    Mumix Piano Varied Japan
    Old Stories Of Japan (T-WAVE) Varied Japan
    Miyazaki Sunshine FM Varied,Talk Japan
    Kuwahara Shohei Sui mo Amai mo Varied Japan
    FM Aizu Varied Japan
    NHK FM Varied Japan
    FM Takamatu 81.5 Varied Japan
    NOAS FM Rock,Varied,Talk Japan
    OTTAVA Classical Japan
    Narumi Happo Gokigensan Varied Japan
    Earth Dreaming - Save the glass Earth - Varied Japan
    FM GIG 81.8 Varied Japan
    NHK World Portuguese News Japan
    P-tomu.Comic Jack Varied Japan
    Goketsu P Varied Japan
    Uwasa no GIG Maizuru Varied Japan
    FM Mikky 76.1 Varied Japan
    Kosakin DE Waao! Varied Japan
    FM CASTLE Oldies,Pop Japan
    News Tantei Kyoku Varied Japan
    FM NishiTokyo 84.2 Varied Japan
    FM Odawara 78.7 News Talk,News,Talk Japan
    NHK news News Japan
    M Channel from Maizuru Varied Japan
    FM senri Varied,Talk Japan
    KOCO Radio 79.1 FM Varied Japan
    Anime-Q8 Varied Japan
    ENDLESS DREAM 7 Varied Japan
    FM River, Asahikawa Varied Japan
    Go J! Varied Japan
    FM Hirakata, Osaka Varied Japan
    Hardcore J Pop Japan
    Hitsujikai Radio Religious,Christian Japan

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    Podcasts:

    Rain Tree Crow

    ALBUMS

    Rain Tree Crow

    Released 1992

    Japan

    ALBUMS

    The Collection

    Released 2009

    The Very Best Of

    Released 2006

    Assemblage

    Released 2006

    Adolescent Sex

    Released 2004

    The Best of Japan

    Released 2002

    The Masters

    Released 1997

    The Singles: Japan

    Released 1996

    In Vogue

    Released 1996

    Methods of Dance

    Released 1991

    The Other Side of Japan

    Released 1991

    Gentlemen Take Polaroids

    Released 1991

    Souvenir From Japan

    Released 1989

    Quiet Life

    Released 1986

    Exorcising Ghosts

    Released 1984

    Oil on Canvas

    Released 1983

    Leidenese Boy

    Released 1982

    Visions of China

    Released 1982

    Japan

    Released 1982

    Live at Hammersmith Odeon

    Released 1981

    Tin Drum

    Released 1981

    Obscure Alternatives

    Released 1978

    1982-12-08: Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan

    Died: 1982-12-16

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    Big In Japan

    by: Ane Brun

    Winter’s cityside
    Crystal bits of snowflakes
    All around my head and in the wind
    I had no illusions
    That I’d ever find a glimpse
    Of summer’s heatwaves in your eyes
    You did what you did to me
    Now it’s history I see
    Here’s my comeback on the road again
    Things will happen while they can
    I will wait here for my man tonight
    It’s easy when you’re big in Japan
    Aah when you’re big in Japan-tonight…
    Big in Japan-be-tight…
    Big in Japan… ooh the eastern sea’s so blue
    Big in Japan-alright,
    Pay! — Then I’ll sleep by your side
    Things are easy when you’re big in Japan
    Oh when you’re big in Japan
    Neon on my naked skin, passing silhouettes
    Of strange illuminated mannequins
    Shall I stay here at the zoo
    Or should I go and change my point of view
    For other ugly scenes
    You did what you did to me
    Now it’s history I see
    Here’s my comeback on the road again
    Things will happen while they can
    I will wait here for my man tonight
    It’s easy when you’re big in Japan
    Aah when you’re big in Japan-tonight…
    Big in Japan-be-tight…
    Big in Japan… ooh the eastern sea’s so blue
    Big in Japan-alright, pay!
    Then I’ll sleep by your side




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