メコン河も泣いている [The Mekong River Is Crying]
1966 · Minoruphone KA-58 · Japan
![メコン河も泣いている [The Mekong River Is Crying] – 芥川隆行 [Takayuki Akutagawa] (Picture sleeve (front))](/im/VWSP3580-3.webp)
- Artist
- 芥川隆行 [Takayuki Akutagawa]
- Title
- メコン河も泣いている [The Mekong River Is Crying]
- Release
- 本の針 / メコン河も泣いている [Needle / The Mekong River Is Crying]
- Year
- 1966
- Label
- Minoruphone # KA-58
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- Japanese
- Country
- Japan
- Genre
- Japanese Music · Narration · Traditional Pop
- Primary theme
- Peace, Protest & Anti-War
Annotation — Japanese Songs
The B-side, "メコン河も泣いている" ("The Mekong River Is Crying") was a narration with background music, from 芥川隆行 [Takayuki Akutagawa], a well-known radio announcer in Japan. It presented the Vietnamese perspective under war: "sky is constantly roaring... bombardment was so intense". It argued "we are all human... we Vietnamese are the same ethnic group".
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Notes
a well-known radio announcer in Japan
About the artist
Born 6 March 1919, Tokyo City, Tokyo, Japan. Died 2 October 1990, Suginami, Tokyo, Japan.
Themes
Anti-War · Saigon · Mekong Delta · VC · Ho Chi Minh · Self-Immolation · China (Cold War) · Buddhism · Vietnamese Perspective