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TOKYO, April 5-- "When the warm spring will come, please always believe in your heart ..." A video clip of three girls singing a Japanese version of "Waiting for Your Triumphant Return" in downtown Tokyo has become an internet sensation amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The Chinese song was rewritten by Ayaka Nakata, a 23-year-old graduate from Hiroshima University. The Japanese girl studied at the Capital Normal University in Beijing for a year as an exchange student. Nakata told Xinhua that after watching the documentary titled "Emergent report: A city sees no more new confirmed cases" highlighting Nanjing's battle against COVID-19 by Japanese director Ryo Takeuchi, she learned that China has made incredible sacrifices in fighting the pneumonia-causing virus, which has led to continued improvement in the country's epidemic control. She wanted to do something to help bolster the efforts to contain the outbreak. Inspired by a Chinese anti-epidemic charity song "Waiting for Your Triumphant Return" on the internet, she rewrote the song with Japanese lyrics, which is dedicated to the health workers who were fighting COVID-19 in China. "I would like to offer a prayer and wish to warm the ordinary people in both countries who are suffering from the coronavirus with the song I can sing," said Nakata. "We also want to let the Japanese know what China has done to fight the epidemic and how people feel about life during the epidemic." | 
