Surprise Guest YUI at Shanghai Japan Culture Week Event!

The Shanghai Japan Culture Week 上海日本文化周 is a three day joint cultural event that ran from September 23-25, 2011. This is the first cultural interchange event held by China Japan and had featured various performances by Japanese artists (AKB48), Japanese kimono dressing and tea ceremony demonstrations, and other attractions including a ‘cosplay’ (costume play) competition. This special event was held  to express gratitude for China’s aid after the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

Apparently, this event was free for those who won the lottery from neighboring universities, some students sold “tickets” at a very high price (USD $472).

Popular J-pop girl group AKB48 members performed at 90 minute concert on Saturday, September 24th but the best surprise was to come on the last day! A special guest appeared at this event, and who would it be other than our beloved YUI!

YUI was only allowed to perform 3 songs, here is the setlist:

1) Green a.live
2) I’ll be
3). Good-bye days

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Here is a Chinese person’s report of YUI’s performance at the event!

我在现场：YUI惊现“上海日本文化周”！（有图有真相）

Translated by: CHU-LIP & Panda & cyclo

25日上午，“2011上海日本文化周”系列之“上海大学生卡拉ok大赛”决赛在上海外国语大学松江校区圆满落幕。大赛中主持人宣布结束后会有一位神秘嘉宾（ゲスト）上台献唱，这位嘉宾是谁呢？现场粉丝情绪高涨，一起来看看吧~

On the morning of the 25th, after the finals of the University students’ “Shanghai Karaoke Competition” which is part of the “2011 Shanghai Japanese Culture Week” (taking place at the Shanghai International Studies University, Songjiang Campus), had ended successfully. The contest the host announced that a surprise guest (Gesuto) would go on stage and perform, who is the guest? At the scene the fan’s emotions are running high, lets take a look ~

虽然主办方封锁了消息，但当主持人问起“猜猜这位神秘嘉宾是谁？”时，还是有不少粉丝喊出“YUI酱！”。据说，目前YUI正在上海参加久光百货的7周年店庆活动，受日本驻上海领事馆泉裕泰总领事的邀请，作为特别嘉宾来到“2011上海日本文化周”的现场。

Although the organisers kept the information a secret, once the host asked “can you guess who the mystery guest is?”, without a moment to waste, all the fans shouted “YUI!”. According to reports, before this YUI was in Shanghai to participate in Jiu Guang Department Store’s 7th year Anniversary event, and under the invitation of the Japanese Embassy’s Consulate General, became the special guest of this event.

《Green a.live》、《I’ll be》、《Good-bye days》三首歌连唱。其中，《Green a.live》是YUI将要在10月5日发行的单曲，这首歌的创作灵感来自今年“3.11”东日本大地震后YUI 所思考的一些东西。“Green a.live”的意思就是“大地の中を生きる|在大地上生活”。
She sang three songs, 《Green a.live》、《I’ll be》、《Good-bye days》,  consecutively. Among which, ，《Green a.live》is about to be released on Oct 5th, and is a song inspired by the YUI’s thoughts and emotions after the 3.11 earthquake. “Green a.live”‘s meaning is “to live with nature”.

演唱间隙，喝水的样子都很かっこういい，小编当场萌到~~><~~
In the midst of her performance, even the way she drinks water is so Kakkoii (cool), this journalist was mesmerized on site ~~><~~

奋力挤到前排奋力向YUI酱伸出小手的小编……（勿捶）。最后YUI说，「今日は呼んでいただき本当にありがとうございます。素敵なイベントに参加できて嬉しいです。」“今天邀请我来，真的谢谢大家。非常高兴能参加这个了不起的活动。”

Rushing with all my might to the front row to reach my little hand out to YUI… … In the end, YUI said “Thank you everyone for inviting me here today. I am very glad to be able to be a part of this great event.”

最后，送上小编拙劣拍摄的YUI现场版《Good-bye days》~
Finally, here’s the live recording of YUI’s 《Good-bye days》~

Article Source: http://jp.yeshj.com/new/p188739/
References: MSN Sankei News

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