The late Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone was reportedly a huge fan of French culture, and not to say that he personally started the love for all things Gallic, but my observation was that the Japanese have had a long interest for French cuisine and culture. Chanson has been a small but popular genre in Japanese music. I myself have enjoyed the bread, desserts...fries.
I gather that the fun and eclectic sister act of Charan-Po-Rantan（チャランポランタン）also fell for the charms of The Republic. In their first major debut single "Wasurekaketa Monogatari"（忘れかけてた物語...A Story That I've Started to Forget） released in July 2014, one of the tracks is "France Kabure" (Crazy About France), a bouncy little ditty driven by what sounds like a talented street-side band of accordion, trumpet and other instruments while vocalist Momo（もも）sings insouciantly about enjoying the French life (reading her Prévert and listening to her Piaf) while surrounded by Yoyogi Park in Tokyo. I wouldn't be surprised if she did drop into a Vie de France or some other non-franchise patisserie nearby for some tasty pastries.
Momo's older sister, accordionist and partner in Charan-Po-Rantan, Koharu（小春）, wrote and composed this coupling song. "Wasurekaketa Monogatari" did fairly well on the charts, hitting No. 26 on Oricon. Nice video by the way of that very area I was talking about in the previous paragraph.
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