Cattle Straits

Jun Togawa based the title on the 1962 Tsutomu Mizukami novel Hunger Straits (飢餓海峡). Despite the lyric's themes, this song has no relation to the 1956 Shouzou Numa novel Yapoo, the Human Cattle (家畜人ヤプー).

Originally released (with different lyrics) as a studio recording on 1984's Alphabet, the only issue of GGPM (Ge Gjmgjgam Prrr Gjmgem), intended to be a series of cassette mooks by B-Sellers. For it, various artists contributed pieces that represented each letter of the alphabet; "G" was handled by Togawa (audio) and Nobuko Edadzune (visuals) separately. Jun Togawa Unit rerecorded the song, which was omitted from the original 1985 vinyl and cassette release of their sole album Far Eastern Comfort Songs (極東慰安唱歌), but is present in every reissue from the 1987 first CD release onwards. Susumu Hirasawa made a bold techno rearrangement for the Showa Kyonen Tour of early 1990, where he and his solo backing band keyboardists (Hikaru Kotobuki and Kitune Akimoto) accompanied Togawa.

Lyrics

 * 1 "The word “people” is written with the kanji for “stranger”."