{"id":8022,"date":"2010-04-15T14:58:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T05:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=8022"},"modified":"2010-04-15T14:58:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T05:58:56","slug":"2010-shanghai-expo-theme-song-sounds-japanese-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/2010-shanghai-expo-theme-song-sounds-japanese-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"2010 Shanghai Expo Theme Song Sounds&#8230; Japanese Pop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Japanese online media on China news reported that the opening theme of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.expo2010.cn\/\">Expo 2010 Shanghai China<\/a>, which is coming next month, is very similar with a Japanese pop song released last century.<br \/>\nA Japanese singer\/songwriter Maya Okamoto&#8217;s &#8220;Sonomama no Kimi de ite&#8221;(\u305d\u306e\u307e\u307e\u306e\u541b\u3067\u3044\u3066) in 1997.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/hax6v5GcB-w&#038;hl=ja_JP&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\nShanghai Expo Theme Song &#8220;Waiting you in 2010&#8243;(2010\u7b49\u4f60\u6765) sung by Jackie Chan, Andy Lau and a lot of Chinese stars.<\/p>\n<p>Both songs sound very similar for me. On the movie, lyrics and music are credited to another persons so this may not be a authorized cover song.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/blogmag.ascii.jp\/china\/2010\/04\/003780.html\">Ascii.jp<\/a> [J] and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.searchina.ne.jp\/disp.cgi?y=2010&#038;d=0415&#038;f=national_0415_008.shtml\">Searchina<\/a> [J]<br \/>\n[Update 2010-04-18] AP reported that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/newsflash\/international\/index.ssf?\/base\/international-29\/12715613696540.xml&#038;storylist=international\">Shanghai Expo secretariat suspended use of the theme song<\/a>.<br \/>\n[Update 2010-04-19] Japanese music news media Natalie <a href=\"http:\/\/natalie.mu\/music\/news\/30776\">reported<\/a> [J] that Shanghai Expo officially took the original song of Maya Okamoto as the opening theme. It is so quick and fair. I appreciate all efforts to settle this down peacefully.<br \/>\n[Update 2010-04-22] Maya Okamoto&#8217;s 15th anniversary best album was originally planned on May 10th without this song. However, by strong demands, Nippon Clown decided to dump the all pressed CD and re-press a modified version with this song on postponed May 26th. via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/culture\/update\/0422\/TKY201004220152.html\">Asahi.com<\/a> [J]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Japanese online media on China news reported that the opening theme of Expo 2010 Shanghai China, which is coming next month, is very similar with a Japanese pop song released last century. A Japanese singer\/songwriter Maya Okamoto&#8217;s &#8220;Sonomama no Kimi de ite&#8221;(\u305d\u306e\u307e\u307e\u306e\u541b\u3067\u3044\u3066) in 1997. Shanghai Expo Theme Song &#8220;Waiting you in 2010&#8243;(2010\u7b49\u4f60\u6765) sung by&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/2010-shanghai-expo-theme-song-sounds-japanese-pop\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2010 Shanghai Expo Theme Song Sounds&#8230; Japanese Pop<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[2249,3290,3453],"class_list":["post-8022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-japan","tag-maya-okamoto","tag-shanghai-expo","tag-song-plagiarism","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}