Back in the day (or night), whenever I traipsed through Tokyo around the Xmas season, I didn't particularly think "holy night". It was more "blisteringly bright night" with all of the seasonal illumination. I wondered often about how much power TEPCO possessed to light up all of those Christmas lights everywhere especially Roppongi and Omotesando.
All this to segue into "Tokyo Holy Night", a track from 70s and 80s aidoru Ikue Sakakibara's（榊原郁恵）November 1982 album "Variety Box". I figured that Ikue-chan, being a former teenybopper and all, just had to have a Xmas song hidden among her many tunes and sure enough, I finally found one. Written by Yukinojo Mori（森雪之丞）, composed by Kisaburo Suzuki（鈴木キサブロー）and arranged by Mitsuo Hagita（萩田光雄）, it's one jaunty march that is one dance beat away from being considered Eurobeat and it starts with a great keyboard riff. The song centres around a couple who often bicker throughout the year but they call a truce during the Xmas season and have a romantic time of it. Can't really say that there is anything religious about it despite the title but Japan has mostly been about the Santa Claus side of things.
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