Last night, my student reminded me that Monday is a national holiday in Japan known as Culture Day. Every November 3rd, there are festivals, parades and art exhibits to promote culture of all kinds including music throughout the nation. And I believe that museums and art galleries tend to open up their buildings for free access or half-price access on that day.
When I was on vacation in Tokyo back in November 2017, my former colleague was kind enough to invite me to a culture festival held at Waseda University where she was working at the time, and as you can see above, it was packed to the gills with students and other visitors as the various campus clubs held performances and campaigns to attract new members.
As such, I decided why not put up a few songs regarding Culture Day. Admittedly, I'm gonna be rather loosey-goosey about how I'm going to go about it. The first three entries are associated with some of the things that I talked about in the first paragraph whereas the final two songs were actually popular ones played at some of the festivals themselves.
(1976) Tatsuro Yamashita/Sugar Babe -- Parade （パレード）
(1984) Taeko Ohnuki -- Metropolitan Museum （メトロポリタン美術館）
(2000) Pornograffitti -- Music Hour （ミュージック・アワー）
(1987) The Blue Hearts -- Linda, Linda
(2016) Gen Hoshino -- Koi （恋）
Hey, I having been enjoying culture day since I go the day off! Oh, Blue Hearts' Linda Linda is super iconic and it is probably the most iconic song of the bunch.
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