Human

Human is the eleventh studio album by Japanese singer-songwriter Masaharu Fukuyama. It was released on April 2, 2014 through Universal Music Japan. The cover jacket of the album is the image of Fukuyama's brain as seen on an MRI scan. The album reached number 1 on the Oricon albums chart and has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of Japan. The single's artwork was one of the fifty works entered into the shortlist for the 2015 Music Jacket Award committee. The first track on the album, "Kusunoki", honours the camphor trees of Sannō Shrine, which, like Fukuyama's own parents, survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. Fukuyama used the song to solicit donations which the city of Nagasaki used to establish the Kusunoki Foundation, dedicated to preserving atomic bombed trees and teaching the history associated with them.

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