is a Japanese ''

gunka is the Japanese term for military music. While in standard use in Japan it applies both to Japanese songs and foreign songs such as "The Battle Hymn of the Republic", as an English language category it refers to songs produced by the Empire of Jap ...

'' song composed by

Isao Hayashi was a Japanese popular music and military music singer and composer. He took part in the Japan's famous year-end show ''Kōhaku Uta Gassen'' eleven times. One of well-known songs composed by him is the military song , which propaganda vehicles of ...

with lyrics by Daisaburō Ikuta. It was released by King Records in October 1939.

History

An accompanying music video was released in 1940. Recently, this song has been broadcast by

sound trucks in Japan In Japan, are vehicles equipped with a public address system. They have been used notably in political and commercial contexts, and have one or more loudspeakers which can play a recorded message or recorded music as the truck tours through neig ...

owned by '' uyoku dantai''.

References

Japanese-language songs 1939 songs Japanese patriotic songs {{1930s-song-stub