China Halts Ticket Sales For SMAP Concert: Political Move Or Thinking Too Much?

ByPatrick St. Michel

The Wall Street Journal’s Japan Real Time blog featured an interesting post today regarding what is slated to be J-Pop juggernauts SMAP first concert in Shanghai. Ticket sales for the concerts have been put on hold and one Singapore-based news outlets says the shows themselves have been canceled entirely. The reason for the move? Speculation…

Station To Station: Music Station For May 14, 2010 Featuring KAT-TUN, VAMPS, Funky Monkey Babys And Sticking It To Expo 2010 Shanghai

ByPatrick St. Michel

What you see above would be the new bra introduced in Japan this week which doubles as a rice farm. Seriously, when this is the news exported to other countries, do you honestly wonder why people think Japan’s just a giant island of insanity? Onto the music! Mayo Okamoto “Sonomama no Kimi de Ite” [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hax6v5GcB-w&hl=en_US&fs=1&]…