More Japan.

I just posted on my personal blog about enka, but I thought I'd share this video of Hibari Misora singing a song called Yawara...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_W7-HcBIPA

This is a rough translation of the lyrics (courtesy of my sister WHO IS NOT DROWNING IN JAPAN!):

If you think you can win, you'll lose,
Loosing is nothing deep in my heart
Ever burning, the dream of yawara
Once for all in my life once for all in my life Is waiting Yours is yours I've got my own wish By discarding will I be able to overcome If only tonight as a human
Love's tears love's tears Will I come to share Make no talk Do your fast hand
This is no moment to deal with a fool.
No matter how I go I say I sit I sleep
Yawara all the way
Yawara all the way
Another day will break

The internet tells me Yawara is a region in Japan...I don't really know, to be honest.