Japanese social media celebrity Pikotaro returned as a leading twitter trend in Japan with a coronavirus handwashing song that repurposes his signature Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen (PPAP) to Pray-for-People-and-Peace.

Watch: Gloria Gaynor fights coronavirus with ‘I Will Survive’ music video 
 
The video was among the top five in a Twitter trend ranking in Japan on Monday.

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Pikotaro, whose real name is Kazuhito Kosaka, wore the same gold animal print outfit he wore in PPAP video that went viral in 2016. 
 
His hand-washing video, shorter than the 2016 two minutes hit that the Guinness World Record listed as the shortest song to make it into the Billboard Hot 100 chart, had also been viewed a quarter of a million times on Youtube since it was uploaded on Saturday.

Japanese social media celebrity Pikotaro returned as a leading twitter trend in Japan with a coronavirus handwashing song that repurposes his signature Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen (PPAP) to Pray-for-People-and-Peace.

Japanese social media celebrity Pikotaro returned as a leading twitter trend in Japan with a coronavirus handwashing song that repurposes his signature Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen (PPAP) to Pray-for-People-and-Peace. Watch: Gloria Gaynor fights coronavirus with ‘I Will Survive’ music video The video was among the top five in a Twitter trend ranking in Japan on Monday. Pikotaro, whose real name is Kazuhito Kosaka, wore the same gold animal print outfit he wore in PPAP video that went viral in 2016. His hand-washing video, shorter than the 2016 two minutes hit that the Guinness World Record listed as the shortest song to make it into the Billboard Hot 100 chart, had also been viewed a quarter of a million times on Youtube since it was uploaded on Saturday.

Japanese celebrity Pikotaro redesigns signature song as hand washing melody

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Japanese celebrity Pikotaro redesigns signature song as hand washing melody