I only found about this song just within the last few minutes as I was going through my
Mixi (a Japanese SNS) account. One of my Mixi friends put up this song by popster
Yuko Kawai（河合夕子）who had debuted in
1981.
"Tokyo-tique Girl" was written and composed by Kawai, and the reason I put it up was it just had that cute and catchy
Seiko-ish summery melody that I get all nostalgic about.
There is only a brief article written about her at
J-Wiki, but it looks like
"Tokyo-tique Girl" was her debut single, and the cover for her first album
"Little Tokyo" has her looking like she does in the video above as she appeared in an episode of
"Yoru no Hit Studio Deluxe". With that frizzy hair and the leopard-print shirt, she looked like a middle-aged lady walking through the
Sugamo district of
Tokyo (known as the
Harajuku for people of a certain age), although
Kawai was actually in her mid-20s at the time.
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