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Sakura Sakura" (さくら さくら, "Cherry blossoms, cherry blossoms"), also known as "Sakura", is a traditional Japanese folk song depicting spring, the season of cherry blossoms. It is often sung in international settings as a song representative of Japan.
"Tsugunai" (つぐない; meaning "atonement" or "expiation"), is a song recorded by Taiwanese singer Teresa Teng. The original Japanese version was released on January 21, 1984, [4] [5] while the Mandarin version titled "Changhuan" (償還) was released a year later in August 1985 as part of her Mandarin album of the same name.
Furusato (Japanese: 故郷, ' old home ' or ' hometown ') is a well-known 1914 Japanese children's song, with music by Teiichi Okano and lyrics by Tatsuyuki Takano [].. Although Takano's hometown was Nakano, Nagano, his lyrics do not seem to refer to a particular place. [1]
"Hai Yorokonde" (Japanese: はいよろこんで, lit. ' I'll be so glad to ') is a song by Japanese singer-songwriter and internet personality Kocchi no Kento, released as a single by Blowout Inc. on May 27, 2024.
In Japan, "Ue o Muite Arukō" topped the Popular Music Selling Record chart in the Japanese magazine Music Life for three months, and was ranked as the number one song of 1961 in Japan. In the US, "Sukiyaki" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1963, one of the few non-English songs to have done so, and the first in a non-European language.
Sōran Bushi (ソーラン節) is one of the most famous traditional songs and dance in Japan. It is a sea shanty that is said to have been first sung by the fishermen of Hokkaido . The commonly known version of the song and dance is called Nanchū Sōran ( 南中ソーラン ) and was created in 1991 at the Wakkanai Minami Junior High School.
"Tōryanse" (通りゃんせ) is the name of a traditional Japanese children's tune . It is a common choice for music played by traffic lights in Japan when it is safe to cross. Tōryanse can be heard in many forms of popular culture, such as at crosswalks in anime.
The Translated songs (Japanese: 翻訳唱歌, Honyaku shōka, meaning "translated songs") in the narrow sense are the foreign-language songs that were translated into Japanese, when Western-style songs were introduced into school education in the Meiji era (the latter half of the 19th century) of Japan.