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11-29-2011, 03:50 AM
My hostmother in Japan had a tape of Sakamoto that I listened to often. I loved that album almost as much as I love enka.
I still can't figure out how the hell this song hit #1 in the US a scant two decades after Pearl Harbor and WWII. We Americans are not exactly comfortable with foreign languages in the US, let alone one of a then-recent enemy.
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