Reporter: Congratulations on your new post, Prime Minister Ishiba.
Ishiba: Thank you.
Reporter: What do you plan to do first?
Ishiba: Uh...dissolve the Lower House in about a week and then have general elections on October 27th.
Reporter: Ah....
Well, I guess the newest Prime Minister of Japan didn't waste time and actually, this is the second time that a Japanese head of government called for dissolution and elections right after he got the job, so it isn't exactly unprecedented. But I'm not here to focus on the PM but the JM...Junko Mihara（三原じゅん子）, to be specific. I've noted in her file on KKP that she has been a Parliamentarian for a good long while now and she now has her first portfolio as a cabinet minister; she'll be taking care of child policy.
But of course, over four decades ago, Mihara was in the entertainment industry as a singer and an actress. She released 21 singles and 15 albums between 1980 and 1991 and though from the brief file she has on the blog has also covered some of her City Pop material, whenever her name pops up in my memories, I usually think of her as an 80s rock-n'-rolling lass because of the time that I first got to see her on the 1982 edition of NHK's Kohaku Utagassen singing "Honki de Love Me Good"（ホンキでLove Me Good).
"Honki de Love Me Good" was her 10th single released in October 1982 which did OK by peaking at No. 28 on Oricon. However, her 8th single from earlier in May did even better by scoring a No. 11 ranking. "Datte ~ Fall In Love ~ Totsuzen" (But...Falling in Love...All of a Sudden) is a twist-happy rock-n'-roll number that was written by Reiko Yamada（山田麗子）and members of the rock-n'-roll band The Crazy Rider Yokohama Ginbae Rolling Special（T.C.R横浜銀蝿R.S.）and composed by TAKU. If anything, "Datte ~ Fall In Love ~ Totsuzen" is an even faster-paced rocker that brings up images of those dancers in Harajuku that I mentioned in yesterday's article on Toshihiko Tahara's（田原俊彦）"Harajuku Kiss"（原宿キッス）. Man, time does fly!
Hope you get nominated, haha!
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