2) Bear sightings in Japan soared to over 20,000 in the first half of the fiscal year.

(3) JAPAN: PM requests a summit with the North Korean leader

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Last week in Japan, November 12th, rundown:

(1) Japan's Prime Minister Takaichi met with Jae-myung, the South Korean President. They talked about maintaining strong ties with the US, among other topics.

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Japan's Prime Minister Takaichi met with Jae-myung, the South Korean President. They talked about maintaining strong ties with the US, among other topics.

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Every Sunday I look back at the preceding week in kpop and pick out a music video or performance that I have particularly liked. This week I have chosen ME:I – Sugar Bomb.

https://youtu.be/mOzZZf-lL3M?si=0IIB14Q2S_HjnELo

Can a song with Japanese lyrics sung by a Japanese group count as Kpop? I think “Sugar Bomb” can, because the group are being promoted through Kpop channels, their agency is a Korean-Japanese joint enterprise, the survival show from which the girls come is a Japanese version of a Korean show, many of those who worked on the song are Korean, and to me it looks and sounds kpopish. I just hope, given the complex and often unhappy history of Korean relations with Japan, that I am not being insensitive in my labeling here.

I preferred this B side to the title track “Click”. Look to the lower left of the screen, and you’ll see each idol named as she sings her part; wouldn’t it be helpful for learning names if this practice were more widely adopted in kpop?

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