Music
Yodobashi Camera is one of the largest discount home electronics chain stores in Japan. After visiting a Yodobashi Camera store one of the things that you remember from the store is the atmosphere music. The original melody is catchy, sometimes you love it, sometimes you hate it… mostly when you are more than 10 minutes [...]
I’m not much into music but lately I have been listening quite a lot to Sakamoto Ryūichi (坂本 龍一) music, as recommended by Joi Ito. Sakamoto Ryūichi is a Japanese musician and composer that has been active for almost 40 years; he started to be internationally known during the 80s when his electronic music band [...]
AKB48 is one of the most popular music bands in Japan. It is formed by 48 girls that are divided in 3 subgroups of 16 members each. The latest news is that the group has a new idol, but it turns out that she is NOT real; she is a virtual idol whose face has [...]
Genki Sudo is a former Japanese K1 fighter that after retiring became a singer, dancer and actor in Japanese dramas. His music videos are quite cool, here you have 3 of them, the last one recorded in New York city. New York
This is a music video of a promotion of a pachinko machine. The singer that appears in the video is Kabuda Nobuaki, a Japanese karate and K-1 fighter. Pretty weird.
AKB48 is probably the most popular idol-music group at the moment in Japan. They started in 2005 performing every week in a small venue in Akihabara; little by little fans started to increase and this year they reached the number one position in the national sales ranking with the song Sakura no Shiori: The name [...]
The day is starting in Tokyo, nothing better than some music to start the day with energy! The name of this song is Turnin Japanese by The Vapors interpreted by Kirsten Dunst in Akihabara. Thanks to Vicente Alonso for the link.
A couple of months ago I had to wait for a while at the entrance of Yoyogi park and had the opportunity to take some pictures and videos of the Tokyo Rockabilly Club in action. They have been gathering at the entrance of Yoyogi since the 70′s practically every Sunday and they spend the day [...]
