Скачать или смотреть 軍歌：続露営の歌 (Second Field Encampment Song)

Zoku Rouei no Uta ("Continued"/Second Field Encampment Song) was written by Sato Sonosuke in 1937 during the Sino-Japanese war.

By a different songwriter than Rouei no Uta and written as a response piece, the song was much less popular than the former and this explains why there has only ever been one recording of the song, which I have taken from a good quality vinal recording and translated.

This is the only ever translation into English of this song to the best of my knowledge.
The lyrics are a mix of violent and astounding and have been set out here as another example of Japanese gunka with a rush of fitting battle footage and sound which I believe fit more for this song than for those of my other videos.

Translation notes:
"tides of blood" - could also be translated by simply "blood" but I was more literal here
"human bullets" - "nikudan", alternatively the mass infantry charges on enemy positions
"taste of Japanese steel" - alternatively "a taste of my Japanese sword"
"the holy war" - the name given to the war in China in the 1930s however I believe this later extended to the larger subsequent conflict
"fall alongside Japan's flowers" - Samurai-esque euphemism: to die the death of a warrior

As usual, I stress that no political expression is meant, and that this is a historical document that I have tried to recreate.

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