Zama

Which gives you some sense of what Shonan music sounded like in the summer of 1990.

The song reached number one on the Oricon charts, Tube, formed in 1985 in Zama City, Kanagawa.

A slightly inland city of Atsugi, and their career has been so consistently identified with summer that they spawned a catchphrase used across Japan.

Natsu wa Tube to tomo ni attekuru.

The most recent execution was in June twenty twenty-five, when the Justice Ministry approved the hanging of Takahiro Shiraishi.

Shiraishi was sentenced to death for crimes including robbery, rape, and the murders of nine people in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, in twenty seventeen.

His execution was the first in two years and eleven months, the longest gap since the government began announcing executions and releasing related data in November nineteen ninety-eight.

With Takami's death, there are now one hundred inmates on death row in Japan.