| Yellow Cab Girls was a term coined
by a Japanese journalist (male) in the
1980s to refer to the increasing number
of young Japanese women who, with large
disposable incomes from the economic bubble,
traveled to foreign locations, notably
New York City, and engaged in promiscuous
sex with Western men. Yellow Cabs referred
to the notion that "anyone can ride them".
The term degenerated to mean any Japanese
women who engaged in casual sex with Western
men. The term has now been supplanted
by Roppongi girls, Roppongi being
an area of Tokyo with many nightclubs
and discos frequented by Western men and
Japanese women seeking each other's company. |