Fancy a bit of knock-off? Go East young man! If there is one thing the Orientals are best at it's taking an original and making an almost, perfect, copy. Never blamed them for it. Imitation being the sincerest form of flattery they have taken some of our best ideas and sometimes made them even better. Think cars, bikes , electrics and you get the drift.
Now they are pinching from each other. The huge Shanghai Trade Fair needed a catchy opening song. They found it in the Japanese 1997 hit Stay the way You Were. So they did just that, changing only the name and calling it Waiting For You. See them both on You Tube and spot the difference. Yep, there isn't any.
The Japanese are kicking up a fuss. Seems a tad rich to me, but there you go. Anyway after a bit of bickering they have suspended the song, then asked the writer of the original if they can use his instead. Delighted Mayo Okamoto was more than happy to oblige. His forgotten ditty is now sitting at the top of the Japanese charts. What goes around comes around as the Buddha might say.
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