, chairman of the Tokyo Music Volunteer Association, encourages elderly people to sing and clap to the music as part of therapy to combat senile dementia. PHOTO COURTESY OF TATSUHIKO AKABOSHI/KYODO

"I am shortly going to publish a book collecting 100 songs for each generation I have surveyed across Japan," said Tatsuhiko Akaboshi, chairman of the Tokyo Music Volunteer Association. He has been treating elderly people with music for nearly 40 years.

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