Takajin Yashiki

Takajin Yashiki (やしきたかじん, 家鋪隆仁 Yashiki Takajin?), often referred to as simply Takajin (たかじん?), (5 October 1949 – 3 January 2014) was a Japanese singer and television personality. Born in Nishinari-ku, Osaka, Japan, he started his singing career in the 1970s in Gion, Kyoto, and then moved to Shimokitazawa, Tokyo in 1980. In 1981, he sang the theme song of the first movie of the Mobile Suit Gundam, Suna no jujika and it sold thirteen thousand CDs.