One of the current regular tarento is Daisuke Miyagawa(宮川大輔)who has the regular duty to participate in some of the world's weirder festivals. If I'm not mistaken, he's entered a frog-jumping contest in the States and some sort of oyster-eating competition. I saw the one featured above a couple of weeks ago in which he had to search for the elusive porcini mushroom in Italy. That was one of the less stressful challenges that he has had to endure.
Songs are often performed for Miyagawa, I assume, to get him to agree to the challenge and put his war face on. In Kimura's case, she sang the ever-so-sweet-and-jaunty "Happy na Happi" (Happy Happi Coat). I'm not sure whether she had created the tune specifically for Miyagawa and his festival trips but it certainly seems that way. Not surprisingly, the song has that Japanese festival atmosphere but it can pretty much fit into any songbook for elementary school children at the same time.
In any case, "Happy na Happi" was the bonus track on Kimura's 9th and most recent album "PUNKY" released in October 2016. The album did reach No. 9 on the Oricon charts. Kimura came up with the lyrics while AxSxE of the hardcore/free jazz band Natsumen came up with the melody.
Come to think of it, I wonder whether Miyagawa would consider coming by to take part in the annual busker festival here in Toronto. Heck, maybe even Fan Expo.
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