NHK: That song is...shima bei (=shima bei/shima song)...it can be called the soul of Okinawa...an eternal song~...shima bei is originally from Amami The children's song of the archipelago... with the lead vocal in Amami dialect... In December 1992... it was re-sung by the Japanese band... The Boom, a subsidiary of Sony Records... and as their 9th single came to be released... At that time... this Single... caused a nationwide sensation in Japan... At the same time... it also aroused opposition from the people of Okinawa Prefecture... thinking that their interpretation method... did not pay Traditional Okinawa music~...Anyway...Okinawa songs...Ryukyu music...In addition to Shimai...there is also 涙そうそう(= gleaming tears)...this song. ..The version sung by Okinawa Prefecture's own singer... Natsukawa Rimi... accompanied by the traditional Japanese musical instrument... shamisen... is also a masterpiece~... Japanese movies in previous years... "涙そうそう" starring Nagasawa Masami and Tsumabuki Satoshi... Okinawa was also photographed very beautifully... just like the Ryukyu Kingdom of the past~...hehehe...coincidentally...the heroine Nagasawa Masami I am...also an Okinawan~.....