Greeeen

So after living here for 9 months, I've FINALLY gotten around to tracking down the name of a song that I hear AT LEAST once every single day.

It's been Japan's #1 song for who knows how long...

it's played EVERYWHERE. graduations, convenient shops, computer stores, restaurants, bars, in the hallways for school lunch, movie theaters. ANYWHERE AND EVERYWHERE!

You can't escape it! But it's quite catchy...and....even after 9 months of hearing it every single day, multiple times throughout the day, I'm still not tired by it. yet.

anyway, take a look at the video (it's got english translation, kanji, and romanji). The band's name is Greeeen and the song is "Kiseki"  (Miracle).

The video is pretty darn cute -- and makes me miss my kids!

(And you can get a good sense of everyday Japanese life from it : ....elementary kids rake the baseball fields before and after practice...during JHS recess, the boys always hang out in one corner of the classroom while girls hang out in another...every girl here has a HUGELY absurd keychain hanging from their cellphone - sometimes it's a stuffed animal the size of your fist; most of the time it's something ridiculous like 8 small charms all hanging from one small loop...OR, it's a combination of both, a HUGE freakin' stuffed mouse AND 8 charms, on one cell phone. haha, see if you can catch it in the video -- ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL the girls in Japan have it. and sometimes, so do a lot of the boys).

cute, eh?