Meguru Ono & Sakurako Asakusa - Tokyo Olympic / Yoshio Kodama & Takeya Yanabashi - Rakudo Manshuu(1937 Million Record) - Kostenloses Hörbuch

Song for the 1940 Tokyo Olympics, recorded in June 1937 for the Japanese seal Million Record.

Japan would cancel his candidature, since they regarded 'too Western' the Olympics.

We present also the B-side of the recording, a song praising life in the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo(Manchuria) - Rakudo Manshuu means Paradise Manchuria. Yoshio Kodama was a well-known bariton of 30s in Japan, most known there from his rendition of Mujou-no yume(Ruthlessness of a Dream)