Ei wrote the lyrics while walking home from a Japanese student demonstration protesting against a continued US military presence in the country, expressing his frustration at the failed efforts.

The lyrics tell the story of a man who looks up and whistles while he is walking so that his tears will not fall. The verses of the song describe his memories and feelings.

Rokusuke Ei wrote this song while coming back from a protest against the Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between the United States and Japan and feeling dejected about the failure of the protest movement, but the lyrics were rendered purposefully generic so that they might refer to any lost love.

In Anglophone countries , the song is best known under the alternative title " Sukiyaki ". In Japan it refers to a Japanese hot-pot dish with cooked beef, the word sukiyaki does not appear in the song's lyrics, nor does it have any connection to them; it was used only because it was short, catchy, recognizably Japanese, and more familiar to English speakers.

Well-known English-language cover versions with altogether different lyrics often go by the alternative name or something completely different, including "My First Lonely Night" by Jewel Akens in , and "Sukiyaki" by A Taste of Honey in The song has also been recorded in other languages.

In the US, "Sukiyaki" topped the Billboard Hot charts in , one of the few non-English songs to have done so, and the first in a non- European language.

That was the last song by an artist from Japan to reach the US pop charts for 16 years, until the female duo Pink Lady had a top hit in with its English-language song " Kiss in the Dark ".

Internationally, the song is one of the best-selling singles of all time, having sold over 13 million copies worldwide. An instrumental version of the song was played by NASA over the radio for the Gemini VII astronauts as mood music, thereby becoming one of the first pieces of music sent to humans in space.

On March 16, , Japan Post issued a stamp that commemorated the song. Buy me this record! Constantly playing the single, Johnson phonetically learned its lyrics and taught them to her sister, with the pair participating in neighborhood talent shows singing "Sukiyaki" while performing their approximation of an Oriental dance number.

According to Johnson, when Cecil Hale, vice-president of Capitol Records , heard her sing the lyrics she'd written for "Sukiyaki" in the slow balladic style she envisioned for the track, "he said, 'absolutely not!

Black people don't want to hear Japanese music. Duke recalled: "'Man, what am I going to do with "Sukiyaki"? It was a simple tune I never thought would become a hit.

To this day, I can't believe it was as big a record as it was. Cecil Hale remained resistant to the track: as late as the master for Twice As Sweet being placed on the disc cutter "Sukiyaki" was omitted, the track only being added to Twice As Sweet before the album's August release after some eleventh hour negotiations between Johnson and Capitol Records, most essentially that Johnson be disallowed credit or royalties for her new lyrics Capitol Records held the copyright of the Kyu Sakamoto original.

These performances featured a traditional Japanese fan dance by Johnson, while Payne who was not featured on the recording of "Sukiyaki" played or in mimed performances appearing to play June Karumoto's koto part.

The song received much airplay at the time of release. It was a Spanish-language version of the song, featuring the lyrics written by Janice Marie Johnson translated into Spanish.

It was released as a single in the United States and Japan. It was included in several of Selena's greatest hits packages before and after her death.

In , the British record label Pye Records released an instrumental cover version of the song by Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen.

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Legends of Disco: forty stars discuss their careers. Retrieved 4 March Also eating beef was prohibited since cattle were considered work animals.

During the Edo period eating game such as boar and duck was common and not forbidden. In the s, when Japan opened its ports to foreign merchants, foreigners who came to Japan introduced the culture of eating meat and new cooking styles.

Cows, milk, meat, and eggs became widely used, and sukiyaki was a popular way to serve them. At first, cattle were imported from neighboring countries like Korea and China as the demand for beef increased.

Sukiyaki possibly originated and became popular in the Kansai region. Beef is the primary ingredient in today's sukiyaki. Despite the title, the lyrics have no connection to sukiyaki.

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