Picture this: You're at a busy bar when the whisper of a song comes trickling out of some busted speaker; you want to save it for future listening, but Shazam-ing it is pointless because it's just too ...

Main singers, standing, and others sing a school song from the Fukushima Prefecture town of Namie, at cafe Tomoshibi in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on March 12, 2023. (Mainichi/Haruka Kobayashi) TOKYO -- ...