Japanese fever

English

Noun

Japanese fever (uncountable)

  1. Enthusiasm or attraction for Japanese things or Japanese people, often sexually to Japanese women by White American people.
    Coordinate term: yellow fever
    • 2022, Xiaofei Tu, Wendy Xie, Japanese Idols Go to China (page 35)
      [] new products and ideas from Japan were eye-opening and resulted in a Japanese fever in the entire country.

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