The English-language lyrics of the version recorded by A Taste of Honey are not a translation of the original Japanese lyrics, but instead a completely different set of lyrics arranged to the same basic melody. However, the lyrics were purposefully generic so that they might refer to any lost love. Ei wrote the lyrics while walking home from participating in the 1960 Anpo protests against the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, expressing his frustration and dejection at the failed efforts to stop the treaty. The lyrics tell the story of a man who looks up and whistles while he is walking so that his tears will not fall, with the verses describing his memories and feelings. " Ue o Muite Arukō" ( pronounced ) was written by lyricist Rokusuke Ei and composer Hachidai Nakamura. 6 Covers and variations (as "Sukiyaki").Back home, some of these people do not live long if they spill the beans on a friend. Some of them would even say, I am going to tell your wife. Anyways they have no strong commitment and will side with their Japanese compatriots when it comes to who is in the wrong or right. I learn a lesson, when it comes to friends, anybody except Japanese. They only know that one friend is all they should have, and if you have other friends, it is like you are cheating them as if you were husband and wife. The other problem is that Japanese are disfuntional when it comes to maintaining friendships. It kind of has similarities with some extremist religions which I do not want to mention. The problem with Japanese women is that they have bought the story about being subservient to their husbands to the point that is their duty. So, when they marry, they expect the wife to continue as sort of a servant. Here is the problem: Japanese men are too pampered by their mothers to the point they become mama's boys. “I have a boyfriend, but to be honest,” says another young woman, putting the essence of the solitary social life in a nutshell,” it’s more fun without him.” © Japan Today I’ll go to a nice place for lunch, then maybe to a planetarium, and then I’ll go to Yokohama for dinner at Chinatown.” Sometimes he’ll let me drag him along, but it’s always, ‘This is no fun,’ ‘Let’s go home already.’ So I go on dates by myself. “I like the sort of places where people go on dates,” she tells Shukan Asahi. Then there’s the 25-year-old office worker whose idea of the perfect date is to leave her boyfriend at home and go where she wants to go by herself. To work off the stress that builds up, I’ll come again on another day to sing alone.” You end up not singing what you want to sing. One of them is a third-year college student, who explains it this way: “When you’re with other people, you can only sing songs everyone knows, or songs that the others are in the mood for. “Now,” he says, these solitary women “make up 30% of our business.” No wonder they’ve come to think, ‘It’s more fun alone!’”Ī staffer at a karaoke box in Tokyo’s Shibuya has noticed over the past two or three years a growing number of women coming in alone. “Secondly, a woman is conventionally expected to adjust her behavior to the mood of her companion. “First, women have stronger social skills than men” - which presumably give them confidence to venture alone into the sort of place where everyone else is matched with somebody. “There are two main reasons,” says Tokyo University professor Chizuko Ueno, author of a book on the subject, “for the proliferation of ‘o-hitori-sama’” - the neologism coined to describe women soloing out on the town. If it is, more and more women are acquiring it - or maybe they were born with it. Shukan Asahi uses the expression “good at being alone,” as though it were a skill. With no friend or lover present, you can, for a while, live entirely for yourself.” “Alone, you can really savor the taste of your food. At the restaurants I like best,” she says, “I prefer to be alone.” “Once I took the day off and went to Yokohama for a full-course French dinner. A 26-year-old Kansai-area freeter penny-pinches her meager earnings as best she can, and then, when she has enough, she treats herself to a first-class restaurant meal. A working woman with a 2-year-old daughter has to hire a babysitter anyway, so when she finishes work early, she treats herself to a solitary sushi dinner and then goes out for a drink or two. It’s that - well, who needs them? Their presence only spoils that certain special atmosphere you can only create in solitude.Įxample follows example. It’s not that they don’t have friends and significant others. The key word is “all by myself” - which is how, Shukan Asahi finds, a growing number of women prefer to spend their time. “Over New Year,” a 30-year-old woman tells Shukan Asahi (March 27), “I rented a hotel suite and spent the night there all by myself, drinking wine in a bubble bath and reading a magazine.” She smiles.
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