In Japan, the song was played by the Salvation Army in the late 1880s. In 1892, a set of new lyrics were written by Tomiya Tetsumaru to make the song more oriented to other Japanese marching songs, renaming it "Masuratake wo". In 1919, Masuratake wo was parodied with lyrics by Soeda Azenbo and Shogetsu Watanabe as "Tokyo Bushi (Pai no Pai no Pai)", which subsequently became a perennially popular s"hin min'yō" standard. The song was featured in the soundtrack to the film "The Flower and the Angry Waves" by Seijun Suzuki.