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| | JCP Gives Views on Hinomaru and Kimigayo, in Reply to Questionnaire |
 | | The song "Kimigayo" was composed in 1880 at the request of the Naval Ministry, and because from 1900 it was mandatory for it to be sung at ceremonies in primary schools, it came to be regarded in the prewar period as the national anthem. | | | The song "Kimigayo" is, as its lyrics make clear, a song in praise of the Tenno (emperor) as the ruler of Japan, which is diametrically opposed to the Constitution's major principle that the people are sovereign. | | | (1) The JCP is opposed to the song "Kimigayo" and the Hinomaru flag being treated as the national anthem and the national flag. |
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| | “Kimigayo” was originally treated as a song for the Emperor, and people believed it’s impudent to call Emperor’s song, “Kimigayo,” a song for the country. | | | The anthem was composed in 1869 by John William Fenton, an English bandmaster, who first suggested to make a Japanese national anthem, and later on, it was re-composed by Hiromori Hayashi, Imperial Court musician in 1880. | | | The reformists say that it’s inappropriate to treat former Emperor’s song as a national anthem under the democracy. |
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| | Weekly Kitombo Takeru Mikami August 20, 2001 |
| | They claim that "Kimigayo" means "reign of the Emperor", and such a musical score praying for the everlasting reign of an emperor is not suitable as the national anthem of a democratic state. | | | I have no intension to start a debate over the national anthem but behind the birth of "Kimigayo" is the existence of the Hata clan. | | | At least we can say that the melody of "Kimigayo" has its roots in Gagaku, the music of the Silk Road. |
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| | The music was composed in 1880 by Hiromori Hayashi, an Imperial Court musician and was later harmonized by a German bandmaster, Franz Eckert. | | | One of the kernel's of Japanese culture is found in the Japanese National Anthem, Kimigayo. | | | Kimigayo (The Emperor's Reign), the National Anthem of Japan |
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| | National Anthem - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | Even in nations of Africa and Asia, where western orchestral music was a foreign notion, the national anthem is still usually in European style. | | | Only a handful of non-European countries have anthems rooted in indigenous traditions, most notably Japan (which has the oldest anthem in the world, Kimigayo), Iran, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar. | | | Some other countries have challenged the dominance of dated orchestral music. |
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| | The words of Kimigayo, derives from an ancient song praising the long prosperity of the sovereignty: “May your reign prosper for thousands and tens of thousands years until pebbles become a massive rock covered with moss.” In the 1870s, Kimigayo became the official song to welcome foreign envoys. | | | In August 1999, the government finally legalized Hinomaru as a national flag and Kimigayo as anthem, which for more than a century had been customarily used as the national flag and anthem. | | | For the first time, Kimigayo is regarded as an official anthem. |
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| | zippyfusenet- the translation that you believed was kimigayo is from another poem, known as the warriors song, or the song of the warrior I believe. | | | I think I remember the national anthem Kimigayo from the memoirs of several Japanese WWII soldiers. | | | I recently read that in 1999, Japan re-adopted the Hinomaru as the national flag, and Kimigayo as the national anthem. |
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| | Japan - National Anthem Reference Page |
| | Fenton put his own music to the "Kimigayo" words selected by Oyama, and the first "Kimigayo" anthem was the result. | | | The government presented its interpretation of the meaning of the anthem "Kimigayo" in the Diet during the deliberation of a bill to codify the country's national flag and anthem. | | | Eckert made a four-part vocal arrangement, and the new national anthem was first performed in the imperial palace on the Meiji Emperor's birthday, November 3, 1880. |
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| | JPRI Working Paper No. 79 |
| | Another problem with the bill was that, although it designated the Hinomaru and Kimigayo as the national flag and anthem, it had no provisions to make their actual observance-- raising the Hinomaru and singing Kimigayo-- obligatory. | | | When the Meiji government adopted Kimigayo as an anthem to hail the emperor in ceremonies, Hiromori Hayashi, a musician in the Imperial Household Agency, created a Western score for Kimigayo with the help of European music teachers. | | | Only two days later, Kimigayo, now the official national anthem, was sung for the first time at the 54th Memorial Day marking the end of World War II. |
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| | When she had walked about halfway through the passageway, she heard "Kimigayo" (the national anthem praising the emperor and emblematic of wartime nationalism) with piano accompaniment echoing from the front stage above, and the voices of adults singing reached her ears. | | | At a faculty meeting on February 21, Sato stated that her unwillingness to play the piano in this case was not simply a musical issue: "I would like to explain my personal reasons" as well. | | | I love music and the children, but the choice before me was to resign." |
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| | The singer recorded the upbeat version of the song Kimigayo, but the record company Polydor said to him that they could not be released. | | | The song Kimigayo has been so controversial and discussed in Japan, and it was only recognized as the national anthem last week legally at the Diet national meeting with official recognition of the Rising Sun flag, Hinomaru. | | | The song Kimigayo means "the time of honorable person". |
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| | Today, teachers are being penalised for exercising their right to freedom of conscience in refusing to honour the Hinomaru flag or sing the Kimigayo anthem. | | | Schools are being monitored by patriotism police who grade the gusto with which students and teachers sing the anthem, to see if they pass the patriotism test. | | | It also said teachers and school staff must stand and sing the Kimigayo national anthem. |
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| | The lugubrious music was composed in 1880 by Hiromori Hayashi, an Imperial Court musician and was later harmonized according to the Gregorian mode by Franz Eckert, a German bandmaster. | | | One of the world's oldest national anthems, Kimigayo (The Emperor's Reign), was adopted as the National Anthem of Japan in 1888. | | | Click the button below to download a zipped file containing Kimigayo as played by a symphony orchestra. |
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| | Strangely enough, while Kimigayo is sung as the de facto national anthem, it was never legally decreed as such. | | | Actually, the person who stressed the need for establishing a Japanese national anthem was a British military band leader named Fenton; the words for the song came from a poem in the Kokinwakashu and the Wakanroeishu. | | | After much deliberation over the selection of a melody, a melody by the gagaku (ancient court music) composer Hayashi Hiromori was adopted in 1880, and then arranged by the German music educator Frankz Eckert to constitute today’s Kimigayo. |
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| | JPRI Critique Vol. VI No. 9 |
| | One does wonder why, with excellent composers in Japan, a contest was not held to compose a more appropriate national anthem for the present day. | | | The supporters of the law argue that it is important now to infuse patriotism in young Japanese and that the national flag and anthem will help do this. | | | Germany, after all, never abandoned the famous Haydn tune of its anthem, although the words no longer speak of "Deutschland über Alles." And the present-day German flag certainly does not feature a swastika. |
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| | Japan Forum - Kimigayo - Too Old |
| | I think the Kimigayo song should be played by electric guitar like what Takahiro Matsumoto did. | | | We've all at one time heard the Japanese national anthem "Kimigayo". | | | I think the song "Toku E-Itkai" should be the anthem, it sounds much better. |
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| | Hidenori Fujita, a professor at International Christian University and an expert on education issues, said that although the ministry's curriculum guidelines say the anthem should be sung at school ceremonies, it does not require teachers to stand and sing the song. | | | Nearly 200 teachers at metropolitan government-run high schools refused to sing the anthem at ceremonies in March, a group of such teachers and their supporters said. | | | Masaaki Kokubu, an education board member, said that in most high schools, the anthem was sung by all teachers. |
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| | They said the board sees it as problematic that some public school teachers refuse to stand and sing while the anthem is played. | | | They claim an order issued last year forcing them to stand and sing "Kimigayo" at school ceremonies is unconstitutional. | | | The anthem and flag were officially recognized as national symbols in 1999. |
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| | asahi.com : English : Column |
| | On the other hand, since Germany had kept the same national anthem during the Nazi era as the one sung in the Weimar Republic, the song has survived to this day although not without problems. | | | Perhaps such a sense of crisis led to legislation to make the flag and song Japan's official national flag and anthem in 1999. | | | With the dispatch of Self-Defense Forces to Iraq, the flag and anthem are more ubiquitous than usual. |
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| | Kyodo World News Service: Sale of rock singer's CD canceled for punk 'Kimigayo'@ HighBeam Research |
| | Sale of rock singer's CD canceled for punk 'Kimigayo' | | | TOKYO, Aug. 17 (Kyodo) -- Polydor K.K. will cancel the scheduled fall release of a CD from popular rock singer Kiyoshiro Imawano because it includes a rendition of the ''Kimigayo'' national anthem in punk style, company officials said Tuesday. | | | Kyodo World News Service: Sale of rock singer's CD canceled for punk 'Kimigayo'@ HighBeam Research |
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| | LookSmart's Furl - The avdwerf Kimigayo Archive |
| | The action -- which implies that the students should sing the anthem loudly -- will lead to compelling the students to sing the anthem in violation of freedom of thought and conscience, it said. | | | [several ministers] echoed the Imperial Household Agency's view that the emperor only voiced his wish that the Hinomaru flag be displayed and the "Kimigayo" anthem sung "voluntarily with joy" and not coercion | | | Japan Today - Students in Machida told to sing national anthem loudly |
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| | wfn.org Japanese Christians Oppose Use of Flag and Anthem |
| | We Japanese invaded neighboring countries and killed innocent citizens while singing the Kimigayo anthem under the Hinomaru flag. | | | NATIONAL CHRISTIAN COUNCIL IN JAPAN CALLS FOR PRAYER AND ACTION The NCC-J had been advocating against the legislation of the national anthem and flag, which is against the principles of pacifism, democracy and fundamental human rights as enshrined in the Constitution. | | | OUR CONFESSION We have been listening to minorities in Japan and Asian countries. |
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| | Kimigayo Sheet Music 8! |
| | Classical, Songs include Kimigayo * Kimigayo * Andante Hal Leonard. | | | World National Anthems Songs include Kimigayo * Dievs Seveti Latviju * A los pueblos Hal Leonard. | | | Classical, Songs include Kimigayo * Rondeau * Rondeau Hal Leonard. |
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| | Nationalhymne Japan - kimigayo |
| | Nationalhymne Japan - kimigayo, Songtexte, Lyrics, Liedtexte, Übersetzungen und vieles mehr zum Thema. | | | Alles was mit Nationalhymne Japan - kimigayo, Songtexte und Lyrics zu tun hat kannst Du hier finden. |
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| | Asia Times Online - The trusted news source for information on Japan |
| | And, Your Majesty, as you know far better than most, the question of whether to recognize Hinomaru and Kimigayo legally as national flag and anthem had been very controversial up until August 1999, when the Diet (parliament) finally designated Hinomaru as the national flag and Kimigayo as the national anthem. | | | And it's quite unnatural and sad to see that we Japanese still do not have any revered national flag and anthem, despite the 1998 designation of Hinomaru and Kimigayo as national emblems. | | | We must cherish the Japanese people's natural feelings to honor their flag and anthem. |
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| | Furthermore, the anthem, called the Kimigayo (which means “May the emperor reign forever!”), is a hymn of praise to the emperor. | | | For Christians, the idolatrous connection of the flag and the anthem with emperor worship chafes the conscience. | | | He suggested that in each school the Christian children be organized and trained ahead of time to join their voices in singing a hymn to Christ as the national anthem begins. |
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| | iCompositions Auditorium - kimigayo |
| | Description: KIMIGAYO is the japanese national anthem.i arranged KIMIGAYO into the Baroque style.enjoy this novel anthem. |
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| | Nationalhymne Japan - KIMIGAYO LYRICS |
| | All our music song lyrics are submitted and corrected by users who contribute to the biggest lyrics archive in the world (512.000+) | | | You are here: Lyrics download -> N (page 2) -> Nationalhymne Japan Lyrics -> KIMIGAYO Lyrics |
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| | Independent, The (London): Anthem and flag battle splits Japan Symbols of empire past split |
| | IF THERE were a pop chart of the world's national anthems, the chances are that Japan's offering, "Kimigayo", would not make it into the Top Ten. | | | The rising sun flag has become well-enough established internationally to have shaken off most of its nasty associations, but the same is not true of the national anthem. | | | The reason most often given is the need "to settle issues of the 20th century within the 20th century". |
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| | ASAHI (Page 6) (Excerpts) June 30, 1999 A Diet debate finally began yesterday on the bill to officially designate Hinomaru and Kimigayo as the national flag and anthem, respectively. | | | Do you think it should be defined in a law as Japan's national anthem? | | | Yes 79 No 19 Other answers + no answer 2 Q: Then, how about Kimigayo as an anthem? |
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| | Kimigayo Christmas Sheet Music 0! |
| | Just christmas sheet music books w/ songs titled: Kimigayo | | | Vocal * Guitar * Guitar tab * Piano * Trumpet * Violin * Clarinet * Flute | | | See Just Christmas Sheet Music Books w/ Songs Titled: Kimigayo |
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| | Taipei Times - archives |
| | After the national flag and anthem bill was passed, a music company censored itself by canceling the planned sale of a CD that includes a punk rock version of Kimigayo, thus abandoning its right to free speech and its freedom from censorship, as guaranteed in the Japanese constitution. | | | Some that Japan is not the only nation that has an anachronistic or militaristic national anthem and flag. | | | ) issued an order for Kimigayo to be sung at all graduation ceremonies. |
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| | BBC NEWS Programmes From Our Own Correspondent Japan's agonised wrestling with its past |
| | Many of the symbols of the disastrous era of military rule still survive in Japan - the emperor, the flag, the national anthem - but their exact status has been left deliberately vague. | | | They did not reckon with the determination of Shintaro Ishihara, the unapologetically nationalist governor of Tokyo. | | | Never mind that the lyrics of Kimigayo are innocuous, and today's emperor has only symbolic, not divine status. |
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| | Reports from Seoul suggested the South Korean media generally welcomed the remark given the militaristic connotations the people of that country feel toward Japan's flag and anthem. | | | Yonenaga enthusiastically had just told the emperor, ``My job is to have schools across Japan hoist the national flag and sing the anthem.'' | | | Emperor Akihito caused a stir Thursday when he broached the touchy issue of the ``Kimigayo'' national anthem and Hinomaru rising-sun flag, saying he did not agree that students should be made to stand for the two national emblems at school ceremonies. |
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| | Japan Times: Education board checked 'loudness' of 'Kimigayo |
| | "Kimigayo" and the Hinomaru were defined by law in 1999 as the national anthem and flag. | | | FUKUOKA (Kyodo) The board of education in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, surveyed and evaluated how loud the students sang the national anthem during this year's graduation and enrollment ceremonies, board members said Sunday. | | | The school board said the action was taken to see if schools are complying with the education ministry's guidelines that stipulate singing of the national anthem. |
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| | (Secretary General Mori in a press conference on June 11)JiyutoApprovalHinomaru and Kimigayo are acknowledged as Japan's national flag and anthem by most of the Japanese people. | | | Let us produce a national flag and anthem suitable for Japan today. | | | However, the JCP is totally against the idea of designating Hinomaru and Kimigayo as Japan's national flag and anthem. |
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| | The Hinomaru and "Kimigayo" in Contemporary Japan |
| | A bill to codify the Hinomaru and "Kimigayo" as the national flag and anthem was submitted to the Diet in June 1999. | | | The music of "Kimigayo" is performed also at non-official events, such as international sports events where Japanese teams are represented. | | | The Law Concerning the National Flag and National Anthem was enacted by the Diet on August 9, 1999. |
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| | was preparing legislation to enshrine the Hinomaru and Kimigayo - the rising-sun emblem and the song celebrating the Emperor's reign - as the official national flag and anthem. | | | Kimigayo's haunting melody is a familiar strain whenever Japanese medalists take the stands at international sporting events, and its lyrics are no more objectionable than those of Britain's "God Save the Queen." Even amending the charter and boosting Japan's defense capabilities are fine. | | | After the Hinomaru has been flown and Kimigayo sung for around a century, the Diet is considering giving them formal legal status. |
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| | Eternity - Japan's National Anthem and Flag - |
| | It is said, 'Kimigayo' is caused by the greeting song of unknown-title and unknown-author in 'Kokin-Wakasyu' the collection of ancient and modern tanka, ths word of the greeting song is 'WagaKimiHa Chiyoni Yachiyoni SazareIshino Iwahotonarite Kokenomusumade'. | | | Thousands of years of happy reign be thine; Rule on, my Lord, till what are pebbles now By age united to mighty rocks shall grow Whose venerable sides the moss doth line. | | | In the Edo period, It uses as a sign of the shogunate ship, become a symbol of the Japanese shop in the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate. |
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| | AsiaFinest Discussion Board -> Board urges principals to make students sing natio |
| | For Kimigayo, it not being the song which carries out worship praise of the Emperor is understanding, if it learns calmly. | | | Why does it adhere to Kimigayo to there? | | | Although it thinks that a graduation ceremony should be a school event and should be the below principal staff of a school's posture [ make it the wonderful event which remains in a child's recollections usually ]. |
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| | WordReference Forums - Sakura and Kimigayo |
| | I think there are some song titles called "sakura," so I'm not sure what I wrote is what you want to know. | | | SAKURA means CHERRY BLOSSOMS in Japanese, and KIMIGAYO is the national anthem of Japan. | | | 12th January 2005 10:57 PM Sakura and Kimigayo |
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| | Japanese National Anthem (Kimigayo) One of the world's oldest national anthems, Kimigayo (The Emperor's Reign), was adopted as the National Anthem of Japan in 1888. | | | The National Flag, National Emblem and National Anthem of China... | | | Japan - A Country Study - Library of Congress. |
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| | Gen Kanai weblog: "kimigayo" for Japanese pride? |
| | Justin McCurry, the Guardian's Tokyo correspondent, wrote about the annual Kimigayo showdown this month too. | | | The example given by the BBC here centers upon "kimigayo" a song/poem which was the national anthem of Japan before the war, and has been restored as such in 1999. | | | The BBC has a decent piece which talks about the rebirth of Japanese nationalism, driven largely by Tokyo Mayor Shintaro Ishihara. |
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| | Asia Pacific Media Network :: JAPAN: Tokyo teachers refuse to sing national anthem |
| | JAPAN: Tokyo teachers refuse to sing national anthem | | | More than 150 Tokyo teachers are to be punished for defying an order to stand and join in the singing of Kimigayo, the national anthem, as the Japanese flag was displayed at school opening ceremonies. | | | This year, it has brought teachers into conflict with a new Tokyo education board policy that requires the flag be "hung facing the front of the stage" and that "teachers and staff stand and face the national flag and sing the national anthem". |
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| | BBC News Asia-Pacific Japan's sun rises again |
| | By a large majority, the upper house the Diet agreed to recognise the 'Hinomaru' flag - a crimson disc on a white background - as Japan's flag, and the 'Kimigayo' hymn as the country's national anthem. | | | The Rising Sun flag and the Kimigayo - a hymn honouring the emperor - have long been used as Japan's national flag and anthem at official events. | | | But now they have been given legal status as symbols of the state. |
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