I cannot add enough here how beautiful Ms. 倍賞千恵子 san's voice is. I'm just one of the many people here. She had a long list of her many accomplishments in the J's media. This just one song: As i listen to this beautiful melody and its lyric, i can't imagine any other scene n feelings of the desolate situation the Japanese soldiers must of have had out in this unknown South Pacific Islands with this strange looking unfamiliar Palm n Coconut Trees. Is 椰子の実 itself, embracing in their bosoms, a metaphor for these longing soldiers to return to their small home towns/villages? Wonder what year this song was written? And was the writer wrote it for the be forgotten soldiers who'd never returned?