Furusato no Kaze (A Wind From Home) 9705 AM 1335 UTC 18 FEB 2024

[Kestrel]

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

[Ron - Calif.]

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.

[Kestrel]

Thanks, Ron!  That's interesting information, and a good source for updates on the broadcasts.