On November 25, 2007, Flower Travellin’ Band officially reunited and

On November 25, 2007, Flower Travellin’ Band officially reunited and formally recruited keyboardist Nobuhiko Shinohara, with whom they had previously worked. Ishima stated that they had never officially disbanded and revealed that there were several talks about getting back together prior, but they were all centered around nostalgia, something in which he has no interest. It was only when their producer suggested they write new material and play it together with the old songs for a three-year period that a reunion came to fruition. Ishima also said that even though Kobayashi and Wada had not played in years, they were eager and pushed him into doing it, helped by the fact that his new instrument made the old material interesting. In 2008, 35 years after their last, they released the album We Are Here . They performed in New York City in November and in Canada the following month. In March 2010, future tours and productions were halted when it was announced that Yamanaka was diagnosed with lung cancer . Yamanaka died from his cancer on August 7, 2011, at the age of 64, putting an end to the band. Yuya Uchida died from pneumonia in a Tokyo hospital on March 17, 2019, aged 79.