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The consonant /h/ in Japanese (a voiceless glottal fricative) was historically pronounced as /ɸ/ (a voiceless bilabial fricative) before the occurrence of the so-called hagyō tenko (“'H'-row (kana) sound shift”, ハ行転呼). Due to phonological changes over history, the pangram poem no longer matches today's pronunciation of modern kana.
There are three sections to the song's lyrics: standard Japanese, numbers and coded Japanese. The numbers are a code that represents the letters of the Latin alphabet (1=A, 26=Z). When decoded, the numbers (3 25 15 21 23 and 1) wrote the song's name in wāpuro rōmaji (C Y O U W A). [ 4 ]
Pages in category "Songs written for Japanese films" The following 149 pages are in this category, out of 149 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The soundtrack to the Japanese drama film Departures (Japanese: おくりびと, Hepburn: Okuribito, "one who sends off") directed by Yōjirō Takita featured musical score written and produced by Joe Hisaishi and featured orchestral performances from the Tokyo Metropolitan and NHK Symphony Orchestras. [1]
Masao Sen (千昌夫, Sen Masao, born 8 April 1947) is a Japanese Enka singer and businessman, of Iwate Prefecture, known for the song 'Kitaguni no Haru' ('North Country Spring'). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is affiliated with the talent agency NoReason Inc.
The song was certified Two Million by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) for 2,000,000 full-track ringtone digital downloads (Chaku-Uta Full). [5] Their debut album, A, Domo. Hajimemashite, was released on June 28, 2007. It debuted at #2 on the Oricon Weekly Albums Chart. The album was certified Triple Platinum by RIAJ for ...
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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 ...