Haruo Minami

, born , was a Japanese enka singer and rōkyoku performer. His song "Tokyo Gorin Ondo" was the theme song of the 1964 Summer Olympics. Early life He was born Bunji Kitazume in Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan. Career In 1939, at the age of 16, Bunji debuted as a performer of rōkyoku, a type of narrative singing, under the name . Bunji joined the Imperial Japanese Army in 1944 and was sent to Manchuria. He was captured by the Red Army and spent four years at a prisoner of war camp near Khabarovsk. He returned to Japan in 1949 and resumed his career as a rōkyoku singer.