early 1990s, Hideaki Tokunaga became well known in the  Philippines  when the song "Saigo no Iiwake" (from his 1989 album  Realize ) was covered in  Tagalog  as "Ikaw Pa Rin" by an unlikely singer, a non-Tagalog-speaking, fellow Japanese  Ted Ito ."        - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideaki_Tokunaga