Hikaru Nishida -- TRUTH

 

Not sure if any of the KKP viewers have also been viewers of the current Olympics happening in Italy but I've been catching my fair share of the action including snowboard, ski, hockey and speed skating. 

Having posted back number's "Doushite mo Doushite mo"（どうしてもどうしても）which is serving as NHK's official theme song for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina (or perhaps for copyright purposes, I should say NHK's "winter sports" theme song), I decided to see what other past tunes have been used as Japanese television network themes for the Olympic games. Well, I found out that TBS' first-ever Olympic theme was introduced for the 1992 Barcelona Games and it's the coupling song to Hikaru Nishida's（西田ひかる）July 1992 13th single "Ikiterutte Subarashii"（生きてるって素晴らしい...To Be Alive is Wonderful）.

"Truth" is a song that was written and composed by Hiromasa Ijichi（伊秩弘将）and it's got that jumpy and jaunty arrangement that reminds me of much of the discography of Misato Watanabe（渡辺美里）. And that shouldn't be a surprise since Ijichi also whipped up tunes for Watanabe as well. Following "Truth", TBS wouldn't punch in another Olympic theme for its coverage until the Nagano Winter Games in 1998 and that turned out to be the hit "UNITE! THE NIGHT!". As for "Ikiterutte Subarashii", it reached No. 24 on Oricon.