Yuki Hatakeyama -- for you

 

Sad to say but I've never had the opportunity to visit the city of Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture although I have a friend who hails from the city. She and her husband just went back there to see family and friends last month. I wouldn't mind going there and Hirosaki in Aomori Prefecture, both prefectures being in the northern area of Japan. By the way, the above video is from Top Tourist Places.

No matter which prefecture it is, it's apparent that the regional television station in each province has an information variety show to provide some light news on entertainment, restaurants and the like. If I were to refer to an American equivalent, perhaps I could cite the early years of "Good Morning America" and "Dialing for Dollars". In Tokyo, for example, there is the TBS show "Ohsama no Brunch"（王様のブランチ...The King's Brunch） that goes on for three hours or thereabouts each Saturday morning. For a while, I was a pretty dependable viewer.

However, Miyagi and specifically Sendai has its own hourly Saturday morning show called "Ara Ara Kashiko"（あらあらかしこ...Arakashi Saturday） on Sendai Television which focuses on women when it airs its information. It's been going on since 2009 and the video above is showing one segment with semi-regular Ayumi Ishida（石田亜佑美）from Morning Musume '23 who also comes from Sendai.

There have also been other assistants on "Ara Ara Kashiko" called the Arakashi Girls, one of whom is singer-songwriter Yuki Hatakeyama（畠山有希）. She's been on the show since 2018 but has also been providing her own songs since that year as well with one of her creations being "for you" which was released in September 2021. It's a bright pop song for which I really like her clear delivery. I'd say that it's fit for a nice bright Saturday morning.