Under the Sun (Yosui Inoue album)
# Under the Sun (Yosui Inoue album)

Under the Sun is the 16th studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Yōsui Inoue, released in September 1993.

Two songs "Gogatsu no Wakare" and "Make-Up Shadow" were released as a single prior to the album, and the latter became a massive hit.

"Make-Up Shadow" was featured as the theme song for Subarashikikana Jinsei, a television drama aired on Fuji TV. The music was composed by Jun Sato (who used the pseudonym Utsuru Ayame), and Inoue wrote the lyrics. The song became the highest-charting single for Inoue, reaching number-two on the Japanese Oricon Weekly Singles charts, selling in excess of 800,000 copies. Sato also arranged the song, and his arrangement won him a prize at the 35th Japan Record Awards.

The album debuted at the number-one on the Japanese Oricon, and became his fifth chart-topping non-compilation album since 9.5 Carats released in 1984.

## Track listing

All songs written and composed by Yosui Inoue (except where indicated)

* "Be-Pop Juggler" - 3:10
* "Eleven" - 4:43
* "Mizugameza no Yoru (水瓶座の夜)" - 4:37
* "Power Down" - 4:42
* "Make-up Shadow" (Utsuru Ayame/Inoue) - 4:07
* "Canadian Accordion (カナディアン アコーデオン, Kanadian Akōdeon)" (Kyouhei Tsutsumi/Inoue) - 5:34
* "Kagi no Kazu (鍵の数)" (Inoue/Natsumi Hirai) - 4:28
* "Stoic (ストイック, Sutoikku)" (Inoue/Jun Satō/Yasushi Akimoto) - 5:50
* "Go-gatsu no Wakare (5月の別れ)" - 5:06
* "Under the Sun" - 5:41
* "Nagai Hanashi (長い話)" (Inoue/Banana-UG-Kawashima) - 4:06

## Personnel

* Yosui Inoue - Lead and background vocals, acoustic guitar
* Jun Sato - Piano, electric piano, keyboards, synthesizer, acoustic guitar, percussion, background vocals
* Banana-UG-Kawashima - Synthesizer, piano
* Yoshinobu Kojima - Organ, piano
* Yasuharu Nakanishi - Piano
* Yasuhiro Kobayashi - Accordion
* Tsuyoshi Kon - Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar
* Susumu Osada - Electric guitar
* Haruo Kubota - Electric guitar
* Koki Ito - Bass guitar
* Chiharu Mikuzuki - Bass guitar
* Hiroshi Igarashi - Auto harp, banjo, steel drums
* Motoya Hamaguchi - Percussion, kalimba
* Nobu Saito - Percussion
* Hideo Yamaki - Drums
* Jun Aoyama - Drums
* Shin Kazuhara - Trumpet
* Jake H. Conception - Saxophone
* Taro Kiyooka - Trombone
* Hidefumi Toki - Clarinet
* Aska Strings (conducted by Aska Kaneko) - Strings
* Ma*To - Computer programming
* Keishi Urata - Computer programming
* Hideki Matsutake - Computer programming
* Naoki "Taro" Suzuki - Drums programming
* Seri - Background vocals
* Nisa - Background vocals
* Anna - Background vocals
* Eve - Background vocals

## Production

* Arranger: Yosui Inoue (#1,4), Jun Sato (#5,6,8,9), Tsuyoshi Kon (#2), Banana-UG-Kawashima (#3,11), Yasuharu Nakanishi (#7), Haruo Kubota (#10)
* Composer: Yosui Inoue (All tracks except #5,6), Utsuru Ayame (#5), Kyohei Tsutsumi (#6), Natsumi Hirai (#7), Jun Sato (#8), Banana-UG-Kawashima (#11)
* Lyricist: Yosui Inoue (All tracks except #9), Yasushi Akimoto (#9)
* Mixing Engineer: Tamotsu Yoshida, Jun Tendo, Takayoshi Yamanouchi, Yuta Kagema
* Recording Engineer: Jun Tendo, Junichi YAmazaki, Takayoshi Yamanouchi, Yuji Kuraishi, Kazuya Yoshida, Kazuya Miyazaki
* Session Support Engineer: Kenji Igarashi, Yutaka Uematsu, Motoyoshi Komine, Junichi Hohrin, Yuko Suzuki, Hajime Nagai, Kenji Matsunaga, Kaoru Matsuyama
* Mastering Engineer: Toru Kotetsu, Masayoshi Nakajo
* Art/Styling: Sachico Ito
* Photographer: Kenji Miura
* Artwork producer: Noriko Shimoyama
* Artwork designer:Shuzo Hayashi
* Artwork supervisor: Tomio Watanabe
* Artwork: Hiroshi Shoji
* Promotion Staff: Mitsuo Sakauchi, Yasuhide Sasa
* Production Coordinator: Sei Sato, Takashi Yokoo, Yasuko Makino, Chiharu Senoma
* Production Manager: Nao Funatsu
* Production Assistant: Hidenori Muto, Rie Nishioka, Satoko Ishizaki

## Chart positions

### Album

| Year | Chart | Position | Sales | RIAJ Certification |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1993 | Japanese Oricon Weekly Albums Chart (Top 100) | 1 | 370,000 | Platinum |

### Singles

| Year | Single | B-Side | Chart | Position | Sales | RIAJ Certification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1992 | "Gogatsu no Wakare" | "Be-Pop Juggler" | Japanese Oricon Weekly (top 100) | 27 | 89,000 | Gold |
| 1992 | "Make-Up Shadow" | "Present" | Japanese Oricon Weekly (top 100) | 2 | 817,000 | 3× Platinum |
| 1992 | "Canadian Accordion" | "Hikiage Mono no Uta" | Japanese Oricon Weekly (top 100) | 35 | 24,000 | — |

## Release history

| Country | Date | Label | Format | Catalog number |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Japan | September 15, 1993 | For Life Records | CD | FLCF-30220 |
| Japan | September 15, 1993 | For Life Records | Audio cassette | FLTF-28040 |
| Japan | March 25, 2009 | For Life Music Entertainment/BMG | SHM-CD | FLCF-5013 |
