Koharu was 20 in July 1986.

She worried about her father in Tokai. Grieved for her mother. Chernobyl was far away but still close.

Maybe, she thought, she could change the future. If not the past.

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#May1986 #koharu #tokyo #birthday #tokai

Koharu's student memories became mixed with her present when she was taken to a night club by her students in a coastal English town in 2012.. The images were fresh but just a different colour to her now.
#citypop #japan #80s #studentlife

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Koharu's last memories of her father in 2012 had become a veracious fiction. The last words she remembered him saying were

'When your dreams and nightmares meet they might choke each other'

But maybe they weren't

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#kamogawa #cherryblossom #kyoto

Miyoko told Koharu stories of traditional Japanese monsters. Nure Onna, Shuten Doji and Kappa. Koharu saw her mother as a hero saving Kyoto both as matinee idol then as anime. A jittery beat pulsed through her as she slept.

#kyoto #japan #monster #music

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Coming soon

#May1986 #Anothermonica #newmusic

'Ja ane' sang Koharu to her friends as they left the nightclub. It was an in-joke they loved the cool of City Pop. But the bubblegum hook wouldn't go out of her mind as she walked home in the warm rain.

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#onyankoclub #seeya #citypop #j -pop #j apan #80s

Koharu dreamt Tokyo fell to the Zombies. But she imagined it to be just the memory of a game she played when she was younger.

The song she heard ran through her head when she awoke

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#zombies #japan #ambient #tokyo # videogame

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In 2016 Koharu had a check up.

Nearing 50, It felt like her heartbeat was no longer driven by adrenaline, nightfears and infatuation as it had 30 years ago.

Hear Koharu's Heartbeat open.spotify.com/track/4MMMdpoQ…

See it beating here youtu.be/UD3bM8WBG3Y

#music #japan #koharu

Koharu's nightmares were not always horrific. Sometimes she thought it was part of a dance with the past.

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See the video here

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#zombie #anothermonica #japan #dance

In May 1986 Koharu began to have nightmares. The world news began to permeate her dreams and hit at the heart of her worst fears open.spotify.com/track/5y4ZCTv9…

See the video on #YouTube

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#nightfears #japan #1986 #koharu

Miyoko Sato sang 'I look up as I walk. So that the tears don't fall' to her new born daughter Koharu in July 1966. It was from a hit song from some years back, but it seemed right.

#japan #sukiyaki #koharu #tokai

When Koharu was 10 she dreamt of having her own Rika Chan Limited Edition. A nuclear scientist at the Tokai facility.

#anothermonica #rikachan #nuclear

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On 26th July 1966 Koharu was born in Tokai to Hansuke and Miyoko Sato
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After Hansuke's wife died, Koharu would often return home to find that her father had been listening to her mothers favourite records. Toshiko Akiyoshi was an artist both her parents loved and her music reminded Koharu of when she was a child, listening silently.

#japan #jazz

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For Koharu's 50th birthday a friend commissioned a painting of her as a present. It was a kind gift but she asked her friend. 'Do you think I always look that sad'. Her friend paused before saying 'No - but sometimes stillness can suggest that'

#anothermonica #Koharu

Hansuke Sato and his daughter Koharu both had treasured Polaroids from 1986. But both hid their sadness well.

#newmusic #anothermonica #tokai #citypop
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Koharu's father Hansuke began work at the Tokai nuclear facility in 1966. His hopes for the future were firm. But sometimes he could not suppress his fears when he was not close to his family. Even so, his colleagues never knew.

#anothermonica #koharu #hansuke #tokai

18th April a new release from Another Monica.

The Zombies move in on Tokyo (Whilst Koharu Sleeps)

On @anmadizzarecords #newmusic #tokyo #zombies