Kyu Sakamoto "坂本九" (real name "Hisasi Osima") was a singer and actor, born on December 10, 1941 in Kanagawa, Japan.

Sakamoto's song "Sukiyaki" became the first Japanese song in the United States to sell a million copies and reached No.1 on a music chart on June 15, 1963.^[1] Its original (Japanese) title is "上を向いて歩こう" which means "I look up as I walk". He died on August 12, 1985 in an airplane accident during a flight on Japan Airlines Flight 123) aboard from Kanagawa in Japan.^[2]

His hit songs

His major hit songs were as follows.^[3]

• 何もいらない俺だけど (1959)
• 悲しき六十才 (1960)
• ステキなタイミング (Good Timi`n) (1960)
• 月夜に歩けば (Walkin' in The Moonlight) (1961)
• カレンダーガール (Calendar Girl) (1961)
• 見上げてごらん夜の星を (1963)
• 上を向いて歩こう (Sukiyaki) (1963)
• 幸せなら手をたたこう (1964)
• 涙くんさよなら (1965)^[4]