This is the cd "Kingdom of Desire" by Toto. This booklet shows some lyrics which appear to be Chinese (E: nope, Japanese according to comment) Those are not sung in the song.
Bought in Thrift store, so maybe bootleg? Doesn't look like it though, it has a sticker on the front with touring dates of the band. So probably sold at a tour?
6 Comments
metostopholes@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 2y
Definitely Japanese.
Drummyralf@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Ah, I thought because of the very dense few characters it might be Chinese. Thanks, will update post.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 2y
Incidentally, Japanese “kanji” (漢字) were more or less outright stolen from China roughly 1500 years ago
kender242@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Isn't 'stolen' a bit harsh?
If kanji were truly stolen, then the Chinese would need to use a simplified...
Oh no.
gramie@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2y
Next you are going to say that we stole our alphabet from the Romans, who stole it from the Greeks, who stole it from the Phoenicians!
isyasad@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Chinese characters were also used in Vietnamese and Korean until surprisingly recently.