Alien - uh, no, it isn't. It's about the United States occupation of Japan following World War II, since the black market was one of the most dominant features of the social landscape of those trying to survive the aftermath of the war, and the lyrics "the first black men they ever saw were among the foreign soldiers" are a clear Kenzaburo Oe reference - long before the war, the German citizens and children saw black athletes at the 1936 Berlin Olympics - but the Japanese had never seen black men before the invasion, and the Oe story Prize Stock details Japanese children's first encounter with a black man, an American soldier stranded behind enemy lines.
Alien - uh, no, it isn't. It's about the United States occupation of Japan following World War II, since the black market was one of the most dominant features of the social landscape of those trying to survive the aftermath of the war, and the lyrics "the first black men they ever saw were among the foreign soldiers" are a clear Kenzaburo Oe reference - long before the war, the German citizens and children saw black athletes at the 1936 Berlin Olympics - but the Japanese had never seen black men before the invasion, and the Oe story Prize Stock details Japanese children's first encounter with a black man, an American soldier stranded behind enemy lines.