"KAEROU" Going Home

KAEROU is a Japanese word for "Let's go home," "let's return," and let's go back." Kaerou is a song written composed by Japanese singer-song writer Fujii Kaze. It's the 11th song in his debut album 'HELP EVER HURT NEVER' released by Universal Sigma/HEHN Records on 20 May 2020 in both digital and physical format. Fujii Kaze said his feeling and purpose about his composed song entitled: KAEROU, He said, "it has an enormous power to remind me that everything is a gift from God." For me KAEROU is going home where you feel where you belong. And for me Japan for me is my second home. My love for Japan started when I was an athlete in high school as a long distance runner. I started to get fascinated to admire and follow a famous Japanese long distance runner and his name is Toshihiko Seko. He is a Japanese former long-distance runner. A world-class marathon competitor in the 1980's. He represented his country at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and the 1988 Summer Olympics in Soul, South Korea. In 1986 I had the experience to work in Japan as a graphic designer and a mural painter. This is why my love for Japan grew more and now I want my family to experience Japan too and I know they love to visit Japan again and again. I started to have the interest to study Japanese history, its culture and it's mind-set/life style. I love the Samurai and its Busido a strict code of conduct meaning "the way of the warrior." The Core Virtue of Busido evolved from battlefield practices and mixed Zen Buddhism, Confucianism, and Shinto. It relies on seven or eight core values: Rectitude Justice Gi): Making morally right choices with absolute integrity. Courage (Yu): Acting bravely and decisively without reckless bravado. Benevolence (Jin): showing deep compassion and mercy, especially to the weak. *. Respect (Rei): Treating others, including opponents and corpses, with proper courtesy. Honesty/Sincerity (Makoto): Living truthfully and avoiding all deception. *. Honor (Meiyo): Maintaining personal dignity, where disgrace is worse than death. *. Loyalty (Chugi): Serving one's feudal lord with absolute devotion and obedience. *. Self- Control: Maintaining total emotional and physical discipline. Life and Death Philosophy The Sword: known as the "soul of the samurai," the katana represented their authority, spirit, and honor. *. Sappuku: Ritual suicide was used to restore lost honor after failure or to avoid shameful capture. *. Transience: inspired by the cherry blossom, samurai meditated on death daily to accept life's brief and fragile nature. Well, I am not going to go that deep in following it now, because Jesus the Savior of the world have found me. And that is the greatest blessing I have ever receive in my life. I do not own the background music I use in my video that I created. The title of the song I use here is "KAEROU,' sang and composed by Fujii Kaze. and I would like to thank you so much Fujii Kaze for allowing me to use your song in this video I created which is also titled like your song "KAEROU." I also want to thank the two singers who interpreted the song in English and sang it with amazing styles, SYNERGY and Midnight Jazz Cover AIcover. Domo Arigatou Gozaimashita. Our stay in Tokyo Japan with Marivic was a very great experience and a blessing from GOD for both of us. Thank you Lord for all the blessings. I encourage you guys to watch and enjoy what I created and maybe someday you will be bless to experience going to Japan which is a beautiful place with beautiful, loving, respectful, honest and hard working people. LIKE SHARE & SUBSCRIBE ENJOY.