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Weekend Reading: Learn About The Fukuoka Rock Scene

ByPatrick St. Michel December 10, 2010

Ian Martin of the Japan Times has a nice article about the contemporary Fukuoka music scene in the paper’s latest issue and it’s a gooder. Fukuoka – “closer to Seoul than it is to Tokyo” – helped cultivate some amazing Japanese artists of yesteryear (toast to Number Girl, Shiina Ringo and a whole bunch more)…

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One Week With…Kaela Kimura’s Five Years

ByPatrick St. Michel February 22, 2010

Amongst the bright neon lights and garish mechanized crabs of Osaka’s Dotonobori district looms Kaela Kimura. The J-Pop star leaps behind a candy shell of colors appropriate for the city’s top tourist destination, part of her black shirt digitized as if to hide something. No ad save for the famous Glico Man comes close to…

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