Comments on: Playing “Kimi ga Yo” just another gig? http://japan.shadowofiris.com/education/playing-kimi-ga-yo-just-another-gig/ japan.shadowofiris.com Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:01:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Liberal Japan » Blog Archive » Elizabeth van Kampen and Dutch East Indies http://japan.shadowofiris.com/education/playing-kimi-ga-yo-just-another-gig/#comment-4342 Liberal Japan » Blog Archive » Elizabeth van Kampen and Dutch East Indies Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:54:47 +0000 http://japan.shadowofiris.com/education/playing-kimi-ga-yo-just-another-gig/#comment-4342 [...] Comments Elizabeth van Kampen on Playing "Kimi ga Yo" just another gig?Matt Dioguardi on Officials seek to homogenize Japan by sanitizing Okinawa historyKentaki on [...] […] Comments Elizabeth van Kampen on Playing “Kimi ga Yo” just another gig?Matt Dioguardi on Officials seek to homogenize Japan by sanitizing Okinawa historyKentaki on […]

]]> By: Elizabeth van Kampen http://japan.shadowofiris.com/education/playing-kimi-ga-yo-just-another-gig/#comment-4317 Elizabeth van Kampen Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:06:17 +0000 http://japan.shadowofiris.com/education/playing-kimi-ga-yo-just-another-gig/#comment-4317 I was 14 years old and living in the former Dutch East Indies, when I heard the Kimigayo for the very first time on the radio in Malang, East Java. I found it very beautiful. Later on the war spoiled it all. But when you listen to that music, one must admit that is a beautiful piece of music. Greetings from Holland Elizabeth van Kampen www.dutch-east-indies.com I was 14 years old and living in the former Dutch East Indies, when I heard the Kimigayo for the very first time on the radio in Malang, East Java.
I found it very beautiful. Later on the war spoiled it all. But when you listen to that music, one must admit that is a beautiful piece of music.

Greetings from Holland

Elizabeth van Kampen

www.dutch-east-indies.com

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