In anticipation of a Karaoke Event later this month, I’ve been brushing up on some of the songs I wanted to try tackling, and one of the songs, Aladdin’s “Hi Wa Mata Noboru” (The Sun Will Rise Again!) , with it’s encouraging chorus of “Ganbare, Nippon- Sugoizo Nippon! Tachiagare Ima De Nippon!”(Do Your Best Japan- You’re Amazing, Japan! Stand Up Tall, it's Now, Japan!), struck me as a highly appropriate song in light of the events that have been happening over there.
I was talking over the weekend and it occurred how relevant the message of the song was to the current situation. And I just had to applaud reading the latest news from the Tokyohive site and saw that they’d put up on the Tokyo Tower platform the illuminated words GANBARO NIPPON! Not exactly Aladdin, but truly words to live by!
