In 1978, Japanese singer Momoe Yamaguchi released the song ii hi tabidachi as part of a campaign by the Japanese National Railways. I love this whimsical and nostalgic song, and when I sat down on the shinkansen bullet train almost 40 years after its release, I heard an instrumental version as a departure jingle. The train lurched forwards, theContinueContinue reading “On the Cape, a Boy is Fishing”