@Turn Down the Heat Why a 4℃ Warmer World Must be Avoided

1. Climate Change in Japanese Music
Tomoki Maruyama

2. Sensoji, Tokyo
There are neither glacier nor desert in
Tokyo.
The climate changes, however, are
staidly affecting people’s lives.

3. Picture of cherry blossoms
The cherry blossoms, that is the most
popular flower in Japan, bloom earlier than
before, due to global warming and the
climate change.
People have been
loving cherry blossoms
for over 500years.
Its beautifulness have
been song, glorified,
and praised.

4. The CHANGE is that
cherry blossoms
as a flowers of entrance ceremony
to as that of graduating ceremony.
Note
In Japan, graduation ceremonies are usually taken place on
March 20th; entrance ceremonies are generally held on
April 1st.

5. Notes
“I will be a student” means “I will be a pupil”.
”Bye, my friends” means they will graduate from their school
and part from each other.
“Cherry blossoms come out and I will be a
student”
(from a Japanese fairy tale, about 30 years ago)
“Bye, my friends, meet here again. On the road
the petals of cherry blossoms float gently from
above” (from a Japanese pop-music, today)
Climate Changes in Lyrics

6. It is said that spring have been moved
forward by about 2weeks.
Japanese culture is certainly affected by
climate changes.