Hibari Misora(1937-1989)

Famous Japanese singer. Her most hit songs were "Ringo Oiwake" (lit. "Apple trees at intersection"; 1952), "Yawara" (Softness; 1964), "Kanashii Sake" (Lonesome with sake; 1966), "Makkana Taiyo" (Bright red sun; 1967) and "Kawa no nagare no yoni" (Like a river run; 1989). The most successful of them was judo-related "Yawara" (almost two million sells) that became an unofficial anthem of the Japanese judo team at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo (the first that introduced judo as an olympic sport).