The rapid growth of Internet use in developed nations has led to increasing concern by copyright holders over the unauthorized transfer of their works online. With a focus on popular entertainments, I wish to investigate government and industry reactions to the steadily growing popularity of peer-to-peer file sharing on the Japanese Internet. This project will examine the rise of peer to peer file sharing in Japan and the resulting legal concerns and international and domestic pressures that arrived with it. Of particular interest will be music, television, and video game Internet piracy. Additionally, I will examine government (laws) and industry (digital rights management) strategies to curb piracy.

1999 – “Pokemon dojinshi incident” – Kyoto prefectural police arrest a dojinshi artist. She serves 22 days in detention and pays a fine of less than $1000. She also lost her job and her home (Mehra, 12 in his 2004 article, “Software as Crime”).

2001

Early 2001 – WinMX released by Frontcode Technologies (American company). Program could handle double byte languages (like Japanese).

Sometime around here: Limewire released. Capable of handling Japanese characters from fairly early on. (More here, must find other sources for this.)

November 1, 2001 – MMO Japan Company makes File Rogue available to the public (Leitner, 15). File Rogue was a for-profit, file sharing program with a centralized server used to share music files.

November 28, 2001 – WinMX – 2 Students arrested by Kyoto High Tech Police for sharing business software. More here and here.

2002

Isamu Kaneko (Mr. 47) develops Winny (Honjo, 7), exact date unknown att.

February 28, 2002 – MMO Japan sued by JASRAC and RIAJ.

2003

January 2003 – Temporary injunction against MMO Japan

June 6, 2003 – Nintendo wins Hong Kong flash card case. Info here.

August 2003 – Antininny discovered on Winny

November 27, 2003 – Yoshihiro Inoue (41) and 19-year-old arrested for copyright infringement via Winny. Info here and here and here. Accused of uploading games and a movie.
Isamu Kaneko’s home is searched and the Winny source code is confiscated by Kyoto Police.

December 17, 2003 – Court ruling against MMO Japan, permanent injunction issued by Tokyo District Court.

2004

March 2004 – First news of data leakage incident due to Antininny – file belonging to a member of the Kyoto Prefectural Police Agency on his personal computer (Orita and Murata, 165).

May 2004 – Isamu Kaneko arrested by High-tech Crime Taskforce of the Kyoto Prefectural Police

Sometime after his arrest, Share is released anonymously. No date for that att.

June 2004 – Kaneko released on bail.

September 2004 – Kaneko’s court hearings start at Kyoto district court

March 31, 2005 – Tokyo High Court upholds ruling against MMO Japan.

2006

Numbers of media-reported data leakage through P2P malware incidents rises to 200 this year (Honjo, 7 – look at table on page 8 for list of examples, Orita & Murata, 165). Leaked files include sex crime victims, yakuza member names, traffic violators, power plant data, etc, etc.

July 2006 – RIAJ reports that the user rate for file-sharing software rises to 3.5% More statistics here.

September 2006 – File-sharing rates reported to rise to 9.6% of Internet users

December 2006 – Kaneko convicted and sentenced to pay 1.5 million yen. Appeal filed.

2007

May 18, 2007 – 3 males arrested for sharing manga on Winny. Info here and here

June 2007 – More than 10,000 police investigation reports leaked from a computer personally owned by a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (Orita & Murata, 165)

November 29, 2007 – 14th meeting of the Private Music and Video Subcommittee reveals that 80% of public comments are against the revision of the copyright law. More info.

December 18, 2007 – The Private Music and Video Recording Subcommittee of Japan’s Agency for Cultural Affairs pushes for a ban on downloading copyright content and a revision on Japan’s Copyright Law in their 15th meeting. (More info here and here)

2008

January 24, 2008 – Kyoto Prefectural Police’s High-Tech Crime Task Force arrest 3 for uploading anime to Winny. One is the creator of a virus that uses cute anime pics. Info here and here

March 28, 2008 – Akihabara stores reported to stop selling R4. Info here.

May 9, 2008 – Three arrests for uploading anime files on Share. First arrests for Share. Info here and here.

July 29, 2008 – Nintendo+ announces lawsuit against R4 producers. Info here and here.

September 19, 2008 – Kazushi Hirata (33, Sendai) arrested for fansubbing and uploading Wanted to Winny. More info here

November 2008 – Nintendo releases DSi – R4 does not work in it. Info here.

November 11, 2008 – Kazushi Hirata pleads guilty.

November 27, 2008 – Share user arrested for uploading drama.

December 16, 2008 – Kyoto District Court on Tuesday sentenced an Kazushi Hirata to two years in prison, suspended for three years, for violating Japan’s copyright law when he fansubbed and uploaded Wanted. First fansubber convicted. Info here

2009

February 12, 2009 – Two Share users arrested for child pornography.

February 26, 2009 – Tokyo District Court rules that R4 cannot be sold in Japan. Info here.

May 2009 – Supercard releases flash card especially for the DSi. Info here.

May 30, 2009 – Two arrested for webcast service (for profit). More info here and here.

Early June, 2009 – 5 teens, site admins for One Touch BBS, taken in for questioning by police. One put on juvenile probation. Info here.

Late July 2009 – Nintendo DSi update prevents flash card use. Info here and here and here and here and here.

August 5, 2009 – Yoshiaki Asagiri sentenced to 2.5 years in prison and a hefty fine for distributing DS games. Info here and here and here and here.

August 17, 2009 – First arrest of someone accused of uploading a cammed film (Crows Zero II). Kyoto prefectural police arrested Yoshitaka Miyatake, a 37-year-old transport company employee from Sakai, Osaka Prefecture. Meanwhile, Saitama police arrest Takayuki Hamaura, 28, from Kawaguchi for sharing a Harry Potter film. Both used Share. Info here and here and here and here.

September 26, 2009 – Nintendo’s efforts to block flash card use thwarted. Info here.

September 30, 2009 – Two share-related arrests. First users arrested for DS games.

October 2009 – Kaneko’s guilty verdict overturned by the Osaka High Court. Info here and here

November 30, 2009 – 10 Share users arrested in one swoop, coordinated by Tokyo Police. 1 more (woman, Korean dramas) reported arrested later. Info here and here and here and here and here and here and here.

Early December 2009 – Japan loses case in France’s high courts against flash card developer. Info here.

December 6, 2009 – RIAJ event in Shinjuku to promote Copyright amendments. Big pop artists attend, but do not speak about Copyright amendments. RIAJ and IFPI reps speak out against downloading. Info here.

2010

January 1, 2010 – Copyright Act amendments go into effect. Info here.

January 6, 2010 – 48 men charged with sharing child pornography on Cabos. Info here and here and here.

January 27, 2010 – Kyoto police arrest 37-year-old for uploading anime on Perfect Dark. First Perfect Dark-related arrest. More info here and here and here

February 25, 2010 – Kagawa Prefecture police arrest man (33) for uploading music on Cabos. Info here and here and here and here.

March 1, 2010 – First arrest for uploading to a foreign site. More info.

There was a gorgeous geyser spraying water high into the air at its front. There was a Stanley Dynamo proudly placed in a position of honor next to the entrance. And, most importantly, there was a sign with the English words “Free Admission” next to the stairs. I took this all in and thought to myself, “What self-respecting student/tourist would pass up a place like this?”

Armed with my camera and Nintendo DS with its oversized Mario stylus, I entered the building, looking up important-looking kanji and taking far too many pictures of the building and the geyser on my way in.

The museum is made up of three stories dedicated to the long history and inner workings of the Lake Biwa Canal. There were very few English words to help a lazy foreigner so I made ample use of my DS, learning many new, canal-related words that I naturally forgot within minutes. There were, however, plenty of old “Iron Pipe Junction Tools of That Era,” commemoration cups for the various tunnels, old maps, and fire hydrants that needed no translation to understand.

In the first room, I was dedicated to deciphering all the signs, furiously scribbling into my DS each and every kanji I couldn’t understand. I quickly learned that canal history is not quite as invigorating as one might expect. Perhaps that explained the few people I encountered there on a Saturday afternoon, ten at the most.

The ones that seemed to be having the most fun were a young, fashionably dressed young man and woman who held hands and whispered and giggled at each other as they slowly perused the exhibits. I wondered whose idea it was to go on a date at a canal museum. I can only hope to meet someone original enough to decide that a place like the 琵琶湖疏水記念館 would be a romantic outing.

Sadly, when I played the children’s computer game that sent them into peals of delighted laughter, I didn’t receive nearly the same thrill. Despite all the helpful furigana and my DS-assisted briefing on canal history, Chotsu-kun, the not-so-friendly boy lightning bug, kept appearing to tell me I was wrong. But I decided to be proud of my score of 50% for questions related to Lake Biwa Canal history anyway.

To tell the shameful truth, I was wickedly excited when I first heard about this novel on NPR’s Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me. I like the occasional silly book as much as the next reader (well, more actually), so I went and found myself a copy as soon as the book became available.

I think it comes as no surprise to anybody that this book was a massive disappointment. There was simply no way for Grahame-Smith to keep up the humor that came at the beginning. I suppose the opening pages are funny merely for their shock value – after that is over, the whole book becomes dull and inane.

However, I do not wish to to take away from the sheer awesome-ness of the first few chapters. As a fan of both Jane Austen and ZOMBIES, these first few chapters had me giggling hysterically at my kitchen table, utterly incapable of swallowing my dinner.

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies follows almost exactly the same path as the original, with most of the wording precisely the same. The only difference is that the a mysterious plague has hit Britain and Elizabeth and her sisters have been trained to be deadly zombie slayers since childhood. When Mr. Darcy snubs Elizabeth at the party, the only thing stopping her from killing him and recovering her honor was a sudden attack of zombies.

However, it’s impossible to enjoy the book by that point because the whole thing is so deadly dull and monotonous. Seth Grahame-Green simply doesn’t do enough to change the novel into something fresh and new. So my recommendation? Go read the first few pages on the Amazon.com preview and then move on. It’s not even worth going to the library for.

As with any book mentioning civil society, Aldrich handpicks his own definition, describing it as “sustained, organized social activity that occurs in groups that are formed outside the state, the market, and the family”(15). This definition is sufficiently vague enough to allow its application to Japan without requiring any messy argument over the existence of a Japanese civil society. He spells out clearly how he measures civil society – through “quality,” the depths of connections between individuals and through “relative capacity,” the number of individuals in a particular civil society. Throughout his examination of controversial sitings in France, Japan, and the US, he shows how these qualities of civil society are the most important in facilitating effective resistance.

Most refreshing is his examination of all stages of the selection process. Rather than merely looking at cases and times when civil society reacts to a public bad, Aldrich looks at what occurs before that, examining the reasoning behind a state’s choice of a certain site. He argues that, while technical feasibility is an obvious major factor behind siting decisions, it is not the only one. Rather, states behave in a Machiavellian manner by purposely seeking out sites with the least potential for resistance.

As clear-cut and articulate as his argument is, it is difficult to imagine a negative critique of this book. Aldrich carefully covers all his bases with clear explanations of all his data and painstakingly illustrates every step he took to get to his conclusion. This book will be an excellent read for all those interested in state strategies against resistance, no matter their country of focus.

I’m doing more research. I’ve become particularly interested in mercury poisoning after reading about the many environmental disasters in Japan during the 60s. There’s a lot of people who say that one can get mercury poisoning from dental amalgams (the silver fillings in one’s mouth) or from vaccinations (the vaccinations supposedly cause autism). The thing is, though, there’s no incontrovertible proof. Mercury Free is full of patients’ stories about the good health they experienced after removing their dental fillings, but it’s not terribly scientific. Still, there were some amazing cases of MS patients who claim to have really begun to heal after the mercury was removed from their bodies.

The American Dental Association definitely lied and twisted the truth when they released pamplets about mercury in amalgams in the 80s. Some said that the amalgams had no mercury (they are at generally 50%-70%). Some said that human bodies required small amounts of trace minerals to function and that mercury was a trace mineral (mercury is definitely not a required trace mineral, but they didn’t mention that).  Right now, the ADA website says, “the mercury in amalgam combines with other metals to render it stable and safe for use in filling teeth.” Dr. Hardy says this is a lie. I want to do more research on this. How can combining mercury with a few other metals make it safe and stable? It still releases mercury vapor. It can definitely still be broken. The leftover amalgam is not to be touched by dentists or dental assistants and improper disposal can cause significant environmental damage. But it’s ok to have in one’s mouth?

The proof problem plagues the vaccine controversy as well. I read about this in the book, Evidence of Harm. The overall point of that book is simply that there’s not enough of it. But is anybody really looking hard for it?

Anyway, I definitely don’t trust the ADA very much right now and am glad I’ve never had any “silver” fillings. The history of the ADA is  certainly interesting. The first professional dental association, the American Society of Dental Surgeons, was begun in the nineteenth century as a society of dentists with actual training. Supposedly the main reason they didn’t last more than a decade was because of their opposition to poisonous, but cheap, mercury fillings. The ADA started as a group of laymen who discovered they could quit blacksmithing and carpenting and make a good buck off of dentistry, especially through mercury fillings. Is it true? Wikipedia sort of says it is, but, again, that’s Wikipedia and Dr. Hardy has a definite agenda, so I’d like to do more reading.

Now I’m reading about the European Union’s Zero Mercury Global Campaign. Dental amalgams are one of the top ways humans use mercury. The presentations at that conference recommend that all mercury use in dentistry be phased out for the good of the environment. They never come out and answer this question though: what happens to one’s silver fillings after one dies? Is there some sort of procedure for removal or are they just disposed of with the rest of the body?

In any event, the lies continue, as I saw during my last dental appointment. In every room of the tiny East San Antonio dentist’s office I go to, there hangs “Crest’s Guide to the History of Dentistry” stamped the American Dental Association seal of approval. It’s a timeline replete with pictures and explanations of the most important events in dental history. Most interesting to me is the year 1895: ”G.V. Black perfects the formulation for amalgam for dental fillings: 68% silver with small amounts of copper, tin, and zinc. Expansion and contraction of fillings can now be controlled.” Next to this surprising statement is a little picture of three gray tubs labeled “Copper,” “Tin,” and “Zinc.”

I was blown away! I had read about the out and out lies published by the American Dental Association in the nineties, but this was my first time coming into contact with such a thing. This poster was printed in 1991, a year after 60 Minutes did a widely viewed story on mercury in dental amalgams.

So what’s the truth? There was a dentist named Greene Vardiman Black who did concoct a recipe for the dental amalgam in 1895 that would prove popular until the 1950s or so. However, his formulation would call for about 61% mercury with the remaining percent a mix of other metals, including a small amount of silver.

How many people out there have “silver” fillings in their mouths right now? Compare that to the number of people who know what these “silver” fillings are actually made of. It’s crazy, especially considering the number of alternatives to dental amalgams that currently exist. Dentists need to abandon the use of dental amalgams. At the very least, they need to tell their patients what these toxic metal these “silver” fillings actually are made of.

Here’s an interesting article on informed consent.

However, she says the factory was bought up by a Korean group and shipped over to begin operations there, where the country was not so economically secure and its citizens still lacked the ability to effectively protest against the grievous wrongs committed against them by polluting corporations. So cadmium poisonings occurred there as well, and continued to occur until the country’s economy developed to the point where the government was willing to stop overlooking the pollution/poisoning/murder and those particular operations were shut down. But the factory was still very useful and so it was then shipped off to China where the whole cycle of cadmium poisonings occurred once more.

She claims to have remembered this from an article she read in Korea in the 1980s. I’ve only done a few searches on the Internet, but I still can’t find any similar story.

Perhaps she didn’t mean cadmium poisoning?  The 1960s was a period of high profile environmental destruction in Japan with many human casualties. The other high profile pollution diseases included mercury, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide. But you think it would be easier to find some sort of documentation about this kind of pollution cycle. I’ll just have to continue searching. It’s perfectly possible that H merely misremembered or that the article she read in the 80s was mistaken.

Now, we’re talking majorly old here so there was no way I could translate the original. I have enough trouble with modern Japanese. But I chose this story because the modern Japanese translation could be easily found here. Looking at the tiny print in their tiny books, I don’t know how the more myopic Japanese do it. How can they possiblyread a book if so many kanji are tiny black blobs? But I haven’t been to my optometrist since before my study abroad in Japan so maybe it’s just me.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this story. It’s a pretty typical Japanese folk tale with a typical Japanese folk tale format that firmly establishes where the story happened, tells the story, and then gives a little bit of proof that the story was real. I added a few translation notes at the end.

Konjaku Monogatari Volume 14 Story 8
The Tale of the Mother in Hell Freed by the Lotus Sutra

Once upon a time, in the country of Etchu, there lived an embassy clerk. He had three sons. Morning and night, the clerk attended to the official business of the capital. However, this clerk’s wife suddenly became ill and, after several days in bed, died. Weeping and mourning, her husband and children held a memorial service for her spirit. A number of monks confined themselves to that house to carry out her funeral, dedicating themselves to a forty nine day Buddhist memorial service to satisfy the family.

Before long, the forty nine days were over, but their grief continued on. The family simply could not forget her. The brothers debated amongst themselves where their mother was now and longed to see her once more. Well, in this country, there was a place called Tate Mountain. It was a truly sacred, deep mountain. Making a simple pilgrimage through that steep mountain path was difficult. Inside the mountain, there were the boiling waters of the various hells, presenting a truly terrible sight.

One day, this clerk’s three children spoke amongst themselves. “Though we have been mourning our mother nonstop, our hearts have not been relieved in the slightest. How about this? Let’s go to Tate Mountain once to see the burning of hell. Then we shall imagine Mother’s current circumstances and try to console our hearts.” This said, they all decided to make the journey. An exalted holy man accompanied them.

Though they walked through hell one by one, no words can describe how absolutely dreadful it was. The whole surface was covered in burning flames. Truthfully, the boiling water lolled, the smoke rose and surged, and the heat was such that even a person viewing from afar would find it unbearable. This is not to mention the definite anguish of the people being boiled in iron kettles. Finding it incredibly sad, they spoke to the monk, and, after they had him wield his bishop’s staff and read the Lotus Sutra, it seemed the flames of hell had calmed slightly. In this manner, they walked around hell ten times. Whenever they came to an especially dreadful point, the monk would raise his staff and read the sutra like before and the flames would seem to calm slightly.

At that moment, from a rock crevice, the disembodied voice of their dearly missed mother called her eldest son’s name. Because hearing this was so unexpected, the eldest son thought he heard wrong and did not respond, so the voice called him again.

Thereupon, he said, nervously, “Who is this person who keeps calling?”

The voice from the crevice replied, “What are you saying? What kind of son doesn’t know his own mother’s voice? I committed a sin in the previous world because I never gave anything to anyone. Now I have just fallen into this hell and shall suffer unknown torments for eternity.”

Hearing this, the children considered the voice doubtfully. Though there were many instances in which divine revelations were related in dreams, they had never heard of receiving such a message in reality. But be that as it may, there was no doubt that this was their mother’s voice. So the children said, “What kind of good deed may we perform so that our mother might escape from this torment?”

The voice from the crevice said, “Because my sins were so grave, escaping from these torments is difficult. Because you are poor and lack power, you cannot possibly perform such a grand deed. As far as my eternity is concerned, I shall never be able to escape from this hell.”

The children asked, “Nevertheless, how many good deeds must we perform to free you from hell?”

The voice from the crevice responded, “Unless, in one day, you transcribe a thousand Lotus Sutras during a memorial service, I will never be able to escape this anguish.”

The children said, “Even transcribing one Lotus Sutra during a memorial service would be difficult for a rich man. This is to say nothing of ten or a hundred – to say as many as a thousand is inconceivable. But we cannot return home peacefully after seeing our mother suffer so. We shall also enter hell to relieve our mother’s suffering.”

Hearing this, the monk with them said, “Only in the previous world can a child relieve a parent’s suffering. In the realm of the dead, each is punished according to their actions in their previous lives and relief is impossible. You can only return home and do what you can there. Even if you can only manage one Lotus Sutra, your mother’s suffering may be lightened a little.”

So they tearfully returned home and informed their father, the embassy clerk, what they had learned. When the clerk heard this, he said, “This is a truly sorrowful situation for there is no way we can manage a thousand Lotus Sutras. Nevertheless, I must do as much as I possibly can.” And he first set about planning for the transcription and presentation of three hundred Lotus Sutras.

At this point, he spoke with the provincial governor about the matter. The provincial governor was a man of high moral character and when this story spread, he summoned the embassy clerk to question him directly. The embassy clerk told him the whole story from beginning to end.

Hearing this aroused the provincial governor’s compassion and he said, “I shall offer my cooperation in this undertaking.” He also requested the help of the neighboring countries. The provincial governor moved the hearts of these countries and, at last, one thousand Lotus Sutras were transcribed and, in one day, the memorial was accomplished.

With that, the children’s hearts were calm for the first time. They began to think, “Our mother has now escaped from the agonies of hell.”

Then their mother appeared in the eldest son’s dream, dressed in beautiful clothing. “Thanks to that pious act, I have been released from hell and reborn in the heavenly realm of the god Taishakuten,” she said and ascended to the heavens before the eldest son awoke.

Afterwards, people far and wide discussed this dream and it brought them great joy. A short time later, the children visited Tate Mountain and once again walked around the hell there, but this time they could not hear the voice from the crevice. It is said that that hell is still in Tate Mountain.

According to one story, there is an elderly priest in Mount Hiei, now 80 years old, who went down to Etchu when he was young. “I also went to Etchu and wrote a sutra,” he says. More than sixty years have passed from that time.

This is rare story indeed. Until now, we have never heard of a person falling into Hell and telling of it outside of dreams or prophecy. But this is how the story is passed down and this is how it is told.

Translator’s Notes

Perhaps the most obvious difference here from the original is the number of paragraph breaks I added. I decided to do this for both aesthetic and grammatical reasons – having one huge block of dialogue is not only unattractive and difficult to read, it is an atrocious grammatical faux pas in the English language. I also added paragraph breaks in a few other places in order to give it a better flow.

The eldest son is called “太郎 ” in the original, but I chose to merely call him “the eldest son” as there is no name that immediately implies his position in the family in English.

As for “植えれば嘆きを忘れるという忘れ草もこの家には生い育たないであろう,” I wrestled with this sentence for some time before deciding that there simply was not a way to translate the literal meaning in English without sounding painfully awkward. In English, a 忘れ草 is simply a type of daylily and has no connotations of forgetfulness. The closest thing I could think of was something like, “It seemed no flowers of forgetfulness were grown in this house.” However, I chose to go with a simpler, more straightforward sentence that conveyed the full meaning of the original without the clumsy flower imagery: “The family simply could not forget her.”

But the most difficulty came with translating 一日に法華経一部を書写供養 , particularly the 書写供養. I understood the basic concept – the sons had to hold a Buddhist memorial service in which the Lotus Sutra would be copied down a thousand times in one day – but I had a great deal of trouble finding a concise way to put it. In the end, I went with “transcribe a thousand Lotus Sutras during a memorial service,” but I must admit I am still not satisfied with it. However, I think it adequately conveys just what the sons must do to free their mother from Hell.

I am still unhappy with the mother’s statement, “I committed a sin in the previous world because I never gave anything to anyone.” I think if I knew a bit more about Buddhism and sins, I would be able to translate this better, but this is the best I could do. I am assuming here that she sinned by being uncharitable.

However, I did enjoy translating the part before that: “What are you saying? What kind of son doesn’t know his own mother’s voice?” It is nice to see that, even in ancient Japanese stories about horrific hells inside deep mountains, mothers will always be mothers.

The original text may be seen at http://www5.tok2.com/home/byakuran/y2/yume61.htm.

Anyway, one night I did karaoke with Ugochi and this song got stuck in my head. I sang it while riding my bike on the way home, passing a police officer who probably thought I was drunk. It’s so easy, I decided to try translating it.

Obviously, there are parts that don’t make any sense. Like how do you seduce someone’s hair? I thought maybe the hair was doing the seducing, but that doesn’t fit. I’m going to have ask my sensei about that on Monday. EDIT: I am baka. Hair is not being seduced – it’s flowing because of the wind! Also there’s no indication of who wants to entrust whose happiness to who, so I just made that up. Darn that Japanese and its lack of subjects!

I had so much work to do at the time and I don’t know why I wasted time on a silly little song. But isn’t it just adorable? I want to translate the long version sometime. This video is a slightly longer version – they removed the version I was using to translate before from Youtube.

男と女の子

君たち女の子　僕たち男の子
ヘイヘイヘイヘイヘイヘイおいで遊ぼう
僕らの世界へ走って行こう
幸せさがすのはまかせてほしいのさ
ヘイヘイヘイヘイヘイヘイ夢があふれる
一度の人生　大事な時間
アアアア青空に
アアアア陽が光る
明るい風の中
髪をなびかせて GO GO GO GO!
男と女の子　心がふれあえば
ヘイヘイヘイヘイヘイヘイおいでいそごう
僕らの世界へはだしで行こう

Boy and Girl

You are girls. We are boys.
Hey hey hey, hey hey hey, let’s go play!
Let’s run towards our world
I want to entrust my happiness to you.
Hey hey hey, hey hey hey, dreams are overflowing
One life, precious time
Ah ah, ah ah, in the blue sky
Ah ah, ah ah, the sun is shining
Inside the bright wind
Your hair flows then GO GO GO GO!
Boy and girl, if hearts touch
Hey hey hey, hey hey hey, let’s hurry!
Let’s go barefoot towards our world

Jesus Loves Me 見たい音だけど正に同じじゃないと思う。

I have a little book that was packaged with a box of candy. In this book, there is a cute children’s song. I love it!

It sounds like “Jesus Loves Me” but I don’t think it’s exactly the same.

翻訳しよう!

Let’s translate!

Bubbles

しゃぼんだま　とんだ
やねまで　とんだ
やねまで　とんで
こわれて　きえた
かぜかぜ　ふくな
しゃぼんだま　とばそ

しゃぼんだま　きえた
とばずに　きえた
うまれて　すぐに
こわれて　きえた
かぜかぜ　ふくな
しゃぼんだま　とばそ

Bubbles

Little bubbles float past me
To the roof, they fly so high
To the roof, they fly and then
They all burst and disappear
Wind, wind, blow gently
Let my bubbles fly away.

My dear bubbles disappear
Without flying disappear
They are born then right away
Bubbles burst and disappear
Wind, wind, blow gently
Let my bubbles fly away.

shabondama tonda
yanemade tonda
yanemade tonda
kowarete kieta
kaze kaze fukuna
shabondama tobaso

shabondama kieta
tobazu ni kieta
umarete sugu ni
kowarete kieta
kazekaze fukuna
shabondama tobaso

Two versions: