I haven't heard this one in quite a while but when it did come out, it was quite popular at karaoke and on the karaoke-themed variety shows on Japanese TV.
"Kaede" (Maple) by the pop-rock band Spitz（スピッツ）was released as their July 1998 19th single, the double-A-sided "Kaede/Spica"（楓/スピカ）. If there's anything that has charms to soothe the savage breast, then it's songwriter and vocalist Masamune Kusano's（草野マサムネ）vocals as he sings about an old flame that the protagonist of the song is finally learning to let go of. The music is very wistful and relaxing and respectful (nice inclusion of the pedal steel guitar, by the way) of the fellow as he does this most difficult but necessary thing. And I've got a feeling that tears start flowing when Kusano sings "Sa-yo-na-ra!".
"Kaede/Spica" hit No. 10 on Oricon and went Gold. The song "Kaede" itself had been placed as a track on Spitz's 8th album "Fake Fur"（フェイクファー）from March 1998. It made it all the way to No. 1 on the album charts and ended up as the 39th-ranked album of the year, going Double Platinum.
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