Keith Watanabe * NET 2.0

This is such a sweet song by the girls. In celebration of being around 10 years, the girls released Niraikanai, which is a cultural event from Okinawa. It's also a kind of religion where it's celebrates being from a different world where pain and suffering do not exist. A quote from another website: Niraikanai is a different world from ours, where the gods live or a remote land. Along with Tiida and Onarigami, it is the most fundamental concept in the religion of the southern islands, such as Okinawa and Amami Ooshima. Sometimes it is called Niira or Niraisuku. Some believe it is beyond the sea; others believe it is underground. It is closely related to the Tokoyo no Kuni (Eternal Land) and Ne no Kuni (Underworld) which appear in ancient Japanese literature. The Shrine of Watatsumi, where Yama no Sachihiko visited in the Kojiki (The ancient chronicle), and the undersea world of Ryuuguu, which Urashima Taroo visited, are also believed to be like Niraikanai. Where does the idea of a remote other world come from? Why don't we think that this is the one and only world? When we suffer vexations and unhappiness in this world, we imagine a world without them. When humans look to such a world, that remote land becomes our utopia. For some, it is Shangri-la, an earthly paradise; for others, it might be Mt. Hoorai, the isle of eternal youth. (There are differences among these worlds; for example, whether one goes there while living or after death.)