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KARAOKE

Japan Times
CARTOONS / ZERO GRAVITY
Feb 11, 2023
Roger Dahl on 4K jobs
BUSINESS / Economy / Longform
Jan 30, 2021
Â鶹´«Ã½ hospitality sector creaks under the weight of a second state of emergency
Restaurants, bars and karaoke parlors are bearing the brunt of restrictions placed on their operations, a move that could have a long-lasting impact on the nation¡¯s culinary landscape.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Regional voices: Chubu
Dec 18, 2020
Musical improvisation: Karaoke venues find new uses for their multimedia spaces
Firms have seen sales fall by as much as 40% amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but have also been able to tap into new demand.
Japan Times
CULTURE / Books
Jul 18, 2020
¡®Pure Invention¡¯: How Â鶹´«Ã½ pop culture became the ¡®lingua franca¡¯ of the internet
From toy jeeps and karaoke machines to the Game Boy and Tamagotchi, ¡°Pure Invention¡± explores how Â鶹´«Ã½ cultural influence has spread across the globe.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jun 2, 2020
Karaoke masks and silent roller coasters coming to Japan in coronavirus era
Singing your heart out at karaoke boxes may never feel the same in Japan in the coronavirus era.
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Sep 30, 2019
Sing your way to fluency in Japanese
Some people will tell you to watch TV to improve your Japanese, but the real classroom is a karaoke box.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
May 25, 2019
Singing from the same songbook
¡®What sing shall we song?¡¯ [sic]
Japan Times
CULTURE / Film
Apr 24, 2019
¡®Lust in a Karaoke Box¡¯: Celebrating the joys of student life
When I taught at colleges here in the 1980s, I marveled at my students¡¯ freedom, including freedom from study. They could spend most of their waking hours at part-time jobs or club activities and still, somehow, graduate.
COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Mar 23, 2019
Ambitious karoake request
¡®Do you think they have Slayer at karoake?¡¯
Japan Times
LIFE / Digital / ON: TECH
Jan 14, 2018
Gadgets that help to make it easy
Mobile shopping
Japan Times
LIFE / Language / BILINGUAL
Aug 14, 2017
Enka gives lessons in Â鶹´«Ã½ unattainable love
You may groan and think me an oyaji, but enka songs offer great language lessons and also provide insight into how the Japanese conceive of love.
LIFE / Language / WELL SAID
Aug 15, 2016
Learn how to treat others in Japanese and let them treat you with ¡®ogori¡¯ and ¡®mochi¡¯
Introducing expressions that mean ¡®to treat¡¯ and some related phrases.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Sep 21, 2015
Group compiles, posts song lyrics in Braille online to facilitate karaoke for the visually impaired
Nagoya Braille Network, a support group for people with visual impairments, has started posting lyrics written in Braille online for people who cannot read with their eyes.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Sep 16, 2015
Thinking inside the box: Cardboard cubicles offer entertainment, privacy at home
Manufacturers are thinking inside the box to offer stressed-out consumers a personal sanctuary in Â鶹´«Ã½ notoriously cramped homes.
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Dec 3, 2013
Joysound¡¯s top 10 karaoke songs of 2013
Joysound karaoke announced their top songs of 2013! However, just because they¡¯re popular does not mean they came out this year . . .
Japan Times
LIFE / Lifestyle / CHILD'S PLAY
Aug 6, 2013
Let your babies get loud at karaoke
It¡¯s Friday evening in Shibuya. The sun is setting, the neon is flashing and the crowds are swelling. And so with beginning-of-the-weekend fever in the air, it is perhaps little surprise that Madonna is already blaring in one karaoke room on the second floor of a building near the station.
CULTURE / Japan Pulse
Aug 5, 2011
Upmarket and themed karaoke spaces
Who says singing karaoke room has to be a low-rent affair?
JAPAN / Media / Japan Pulse
Nov 25, 2010
Virtual karaoke dates, courtesy of Konami
Sing your heart out, guys. Your Love Plus mate won¡¯t care if you truly suck at karaoke.
Japan Times
JAPAN / EXPLAINER
Jul 1, 2008
Low key, off key, but anyway it¡¯s your way
Born in Japan three decades ago, karaoke has evolved into a global fixture.
COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT
Apr 9, 2006
Who out there cares about ¡®Cool Japan¡¯?
These days the government is jumping on the bandwagon. The Foreign Ministry is singing in tune. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has hopped on, with a conductor¡¯s baton in his hand and a spring in his step that you don¡¯t even see when he¡¯s ascending the stairs to pay his public-private respects at Yasukuni...
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
New ¡®Katsu Curry Index¡¯ aims to show how weak the yen really is
A CoCo Ichibanya curry house in Tokyo.
Putin visits disputed Etorofu island off Hokkaido, sparking protest from Tokyo
Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Yasny fish processing factory on Etorofu island, one of four islands in the contested chain known as the Kuril Islands in Russia and the Northern Territories in Japan, on Thursday.
Â鶹´«Ã½ inflation paradox is creating winners and losers
Chieko Sugai at her home in Murakami, Niigata Prefecture
How U.S. bombing survey in Japan shed light on civilian sentiments of WWII
Residents are seen walking beside rubble in the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, in this undated photo taken soon after the end of World War II.
Forty-five meters down, a diver races to record a fleeting moment of WWII history
Kingo Wakasa photographs the kamikaze plane wing section he discovered at the USS Emmons wreck site.
Takaichi needs Aso on her side to solidify position in LDP
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi attends a Liberal Democratic Party meeting alongside LDP Secretary-General Shunichi Suzuki (left) and LDP Vice President Taro Aso in Tokyo earlier this month
Ikarigata closer to emulating older brother Fujinokawa than many think
The future Fujinokawa (third from left) and Ikarigata (right) compete against each other at ages 5 and 3, respectively.
Where do foreign residents in Japan want to die?
The Yokohama Foreign General Cemetery is one of the few cemeteries in Japan that allows burials, albeit with conditions for the deceased, including foreign nationality and permanent residency in Kanagawa Prefecture.
¡®Total whiplash¡¯: Foreign residents react to Â鶹´«Ã½ changing permanent residency rules
The entrance to the Tokyo Immigration Bureau in Minato Ward, Tokyo, in March. For some foreign residents of Japan, tightening measures for permanent residency have become one factor in a broader calculation over whether remaining in the country makes financial sense over the long term.

Podcast

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo¡¯s Shinjuku Ward.
Kabukicho: Tokyo¡¯s ¡®stadium of desire¡¯

Longform

Disaster relief workers Taichi Kato (left) and Seiji Yoshimura enter the collapsed living quarters at Kyuganji temple in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture.
What Kumamoto revealed about Â鶹´«Ã½ earthquake readiness
By Alex K.T. Martin

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