"Gomen-nasai" is a 1951 song with music by Raymond Hattori, a Japanese conductor and musical director for Nippon Columbia, and lyrics by Benedict Mayers a Roosevelt University professor serving in the U.S. Army.[1][2][3][4]
It became a hit first in Japan then in America when Richard Bowers, a U.S. Army GI stationed in the Far East during 1952, took part in a Tokyo recording session for Colombia with the Columbia Tokyo Orchestra.[5][6] Bowers sang the song again in character as a US G.I. in the 1953 film Mission Over Korea.