故郷想 -still long long way to go
It's already seven years after 3.11 earthquake disaster, and reconstruction of buildings and land readjustment have made progress.But still, there are about twenty thousand evacuees, and about seven thousand people live in temporary housing.Besides, reconstruction of spirit hasn't made headway enough.This year, as long as I read and watch articles and TV programs about 3.11 earthquake disaster, I had an impression that central people neglect people at spot after they just made and left tangible material objects. From the next year after the earthquake disaster in northeastern Japan, Chikuzen Satou from Sing Like Talking started a series of small concerts alone as reconstruction assistance. All the members of S.L.T. are from Aomori, one of the prefectures in northeastern Japan.Besides, on March 11, 2011, Chikuzen was in Sendai for promotion of S.L.T.'s new album, and experienced this earthquake.According to Chikuzen, one of the major concerns of people at spot is: Experience and lessons of earthquake disaster are fading, and survivors and victims are forgotten.The intention of this concert is chain of memory.That's why Chikuzen has a plan of his own to visit every prefectures one by one per month -except for when he is too occupied with works of Sing Like Talking.If local fans visit his concert, and local media come to cover and report, this concert can be an opportunity to have them recall about earthquake disasters and people in Touhoku and Kyushu area.At first, the title was "北郷想". "北" is "north", "郷" is "home" -both geographical places and people, "想" is "affection and support".On April 14 and 15, 2016, a massive earthquake struck Kumamoto and Ooita -southwestern area of Japan.Back then, Chikuzen wasn't holding this series of concerts to give top priority to Sing Like Talking.He thought that it's not proper to use the title "北".When he resumed the series of concerts, the title was changed to "故郷想". "故郷" means "home". This title doesn't limit geographical place in Japan. Also; after earthquake disaster in 2011, a lot of supports were sent from Kyuushu area including Kumamoto, so Chikuzen says that the new title expresses repayment and gratitude from northeastern area.Even while the purpose of this series of concerts is reconstruction assistance, Chikuzen says that he hopes visitors relax and enjoy this concert like a concert at a cafe.Chikuzen selects small concert places, so often it's very cramped.At this series of concerts, he selects songs based on lyrics.Songs of S.L.T., songs he made release as a solo singer, cover songs in Japanese and English, old and new songs...he performs various songs.He selects songs that sound different if we listen thinking of purpose of this series of concerts.As of March 2018, he has held this series of concerts in 33 of 47 prefectures.And his challenge and our solidarity go on...Who is 320,000th visitor！？(Previous)
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