Say hello from Korea. It's true that incompetent dictator and his regime instigate people to hate Japan and curse Japan. But there are also still many people with right perspective. We don't have to be obsessed with history and should pursue bright future. Japan and Korea can be and should be good friends.
ENG VER: Forever may thy august reign bear succession thousandfold, lasting on eight-thousandfold til what now are pebbles small gather forth, building into moss-ridden rock.
I didn't mean that Japan is a bad country or the anthem is bad . Japan is a very futuristic and crowded country . This type of anthem will rather suit places like Tibet and Bhutan. This anthem is very peaceful and 'Buddhist' and 'Monastery' type of.
Kishore Singh Japan is somewhat Bhuddist, and the anthem is (from what I know) around a thousand years old! There was a older recording of the anthem during Japan’s Imperial Era, and it sounds epic, althoug what Japan did during WW2 and in Nationalist China wasn’t.
