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The song is a duet, featuring the Japanese actress Michiko Namiki and the singer Noboru Kirishima and released in January 1946. It is considered the first hit song in Japan after World War II. [citation needed] "Soyokaze" (そよかぜ, Soft breeze) was released on October 11, 1945, and was the first movie produced after World War II in Japan ...
Rofū Miki (1948) "Red Dragonfly" (Japanese: 赤とんぼ, Hepburn: Akatonbo) (also transliterated as Akatombo, Aka Tombo, Aka Tonbo, or Aka Tomba) is a famous Japanese children's song (dōyō) composed by Kōsaku Yamada in 1927, with lyrics from a 1921 poem by Rofū Miki.
Music video; on YouTube: Matsuri ... is a song by Japanese singer-songwriter Fujii Kaze. [1] [2] The song was performed at the NHK Tiny Desk Concerts Japan. [3]
"Umi Yukaba" (海行かば) is a Japanese song whose lyrics are based on a chōka poem by Ōtomo no Yakamochi in the Man'yōshū (poem 4094), an eighth century anthology of Japanese poetry, set to music by Kiyoshi Nobutoki.
"Kawa no nagare no yō ni" (川の流れのように, "Like the Flow of the River") is the last single recorded by Japanese enka singer Hibari Misora, as she died soon after its release in 1989. It was composed by Akira Mitake, with lyrics by Yasushi Akimoto. [2] The single charted at 8th place for more than a year [3] and sold 225,000 copies ...
Songs with English-language lyrics originating in Japan. Pages in category "English-language Japanese songs" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.
1. ‘Turning Japanese’ by The Vapors (1980) When “Turning Japanese” came out in 1980, some people found it offensive because they believed the song was about touching one’s private area.
[6] [7] In a national survey by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation in 1997, the song was voted 16th among the 100 greatest Japanese songs of all time. [8] In a 2010 survey conducted by the Teresa Teng Foundation to determine Teng's most popular hits, "I Only Care About You" received the second-most votes.