西田敏行「あの街に生まれて」

Among all the songs performed in the NHK Red and White Year-End Song Festival, あの街に生まれてwas perhaps the best, the most touching one (Toshiyuki Nishida is from Fukushima).

This is a live performance of the song at a Fukushima charity concert:

The lyricist is no other than the AKB48 mastermind Yasushi Akimoto (秋元康)!