Just to reiterate, I'd first gotten to know singer-songwriter Yurie Kokubu（国分友里恵）through her heart-on-a-sleeve cover of Miho Nakayama's（中山美穂）"Tada Nakitakunaruno" （ただ泣きたくなるの）in the 1990s. Eventually, I did learn of her City Pop debut through her 1983 album "Relief 72 Hours".
And it was basically a ping-pong exchange between those two time periods. However, I have come across this track from her February 1996 6th album "whisper whisper", "Mou Dare mo Aisenai" (Can't Love Anymore). It's a sad topic, to be sure, but this ballad created by lyricist Yasushi Akimoto（秋元康）and composer Kokubu herself, has a refined pop arrangement and lovely chorus backing up the singer's reassuring vocals. I wouldn't be surprised if it had been used in some J-Drama about affairs taking place.
This song it rather lively Ballad
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