I don't speak a word...

...of Japanese even though I spent ten years working for a Japanese Bank. (Okay, "hai" means "yes.")

But I still think "Ue o Muite Arukō" ("I Look Up As I Walk") or, inexplicably, "Sukiyaki," is a truly beautiful song. (It's featured in Mad Men Season 2, Episode 2.)

Ironically (or is it coincidentally?), Kyu Sakamoto, who recorded this hit in 1961, died in a plane crash in 1985 just like Pete Campbell's father in that same Mad Men episode.