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Loggings => Shortwave Broadcast => Topic started by: Kestrel on February 18, 2024, 1507 UTC
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1335 man speaking in Japanese
1340 woman singing "Do-Re-Mi" from "The Sound of Music" in Japanese
Furusato no Kaze (A Wind From Home) is a Japanese language broadcast from the Japanese government to Japanese abductees in North Korea. I had never heard this broadcast before I heard it this morning - and I did not know of it. It definitely brought a tear to my eye when I recognized the song the woman was singing - as it isn't difficult to understand why it was chosen for the broadcast.
Signal was weak here, at only about S6, with steady QRN
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FYI - - - - Info from Hiroshi, in Japan, who monitors daily: http://hiroshi.mediacat-blog.jp/e153823.html :
Korean and Japanese broadcasts in the 1300s can be heard at 12045, 9705, and 7295kHz. ``Furusato no Kaze News''
features a statement from Megumi Yokota's younger brother, Tetsuya Yokota, recorded on January 27th at the ``National
Gathering to Consider the Abduction Issue in Miyazaki'' as an appeal to the families of the abductees.
The hometown song corner is only broadcast in Japanese and features ``Do-Re-Mi songs''. Song title announcements
are not always made. This week's Korean songs include ``Arigatou'' by Yousui Inoue and Tamio Okuda, and ``Sayonara
Mankind'' by Tama. The Japanese broadcast includes YAMATO's ``Mata Anata wo Omoi'' from the live concert from the
joint public recording on January 14th.
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Thanks, Ron! That's interesting information, and a good source for updates on the broadcasts.