Recorded by crooner Kyu Sakamoto and written by lyricist ... Ultimately, the success of Sakamoto’s “Sukiyaki” symbolically announced Japan’s reentry as a rising industrial nation on ...

But Kyu Sakamoto’s “Sukiyaki,” easily the best of those three songs, didn’t have a huge immigrant population or a massive American star to thank for its success. It was just a pretty song ...

Sponsor Message Kyu Sakamoto was the face of this new postwar ... explain the timelessness of that kind of sentiment." So while "Sukiyaki" may have come out of a failed protest movement in Japan ...

Enter Japanese crooner Kyu Sakamoto’s romantic ballad “Sukiyaki,” the Anglo-Saxonized version of the original title “Ue O Muite Arukou,” meaning “I Look Up As I Walk.” The single hit ...

Violinist and composer Diana Yukawa plays the song as a way to remember her father, who died in the same plane crash that killed Kyu Sakamoto, the original singer of 'Sukiyaki'. Michael Bourdaghs ...

Recorded by crooner Kyu Sakamoto and written by lyricist ... Ultimately, the success of Sakamoto’s “Sukiyaki” symbolically announced Japan’s reentry as a rising industrial nation on ...

But Kyu Sakamoto’s “Sukiyaki,” easily the best of those three songs, didn’t have a huge immigrant population or a massive American star to thank for its success. It was just a pretty song that people ...