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Kyōiku
is the debut studio album by Japanese rock band Tokyo Jihen, led by musician Ringo Sheena. It was released on November 25, 2004, more than a year after Sheena's third solo studio album ''Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana'' (2003). ''Kyōiku'' is the only album to feature the band's original line-up, featuring guitarist Mikio Hirama and pianist Masayuki Hiizumi, known as H Zetto M. Background and development While vocalist Ringo Sheena has been a member of several rock bands, she parted with her bandmates when she debuted as a solo musician in 1998. She had always wanted to be a member of a band, however, and used her first three solo albums, ''Muzai Moratorium'' (1999), ''Shōso Strip'' (2000) and ''Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana'' (2003) as a presentation for musicians who wanted to work with her. After the release of Sheena's third album, ''Kalk Samen Kuri no Hana'' in 2003, Sheena embarked on a nationwide tour entitled '' Sugoroku Ecstasy''. Sheena asked the backing members well in advan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sōnan
, is the second single by Japanese rock band Tokyo Jihen, led by musician Ringo Sheena. It was released on October 20, 2004, a month after their debut single "Gunjō Biyori", and a month before their debut album ''Kyōiku''. Background and development Tokyo Jihen was first formed in 2003, after Ringo Sheena decided on members for her backing band for her '' Sugoroku Ecstasy'' tour. The band was officially announced as Sheena's main musical unit on May 31, 2004, and first performed at a series of summer music festivals: ''Meet the World Beat 2004'' on July 25, 2004 at the Expo Commemoration Park in Osaka, July 30, 2004 at the Fuji Rock Festival in Niigata, and September 3, 2004 at the Fukuoka ''Sunset Live'' festival. The group released their debut single "Gunjō Biyori" in September 2004, to commercial success: it reached number two on Oricon's single chart, and was certified gold by the RIAJ. Writing and production All 17 of the songs for the ''Kyōiku'' era were record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gunjō Biyori
, also known by its English name "Ideal Days for Ultramarine", is the debut single by Japanese rock band Tokyo Jihen, led by musician Ringo Sheena. It was released on September 8, 2004, ten months after Sheena's solo single " Ringo no Uta". Background and development Tokyo Jihen was first formed in 2003, after Ringo Sheena decided on members for her backing band for her '' Sugoroku Ecstasy'' tour. It had been Sheena's intention to release music in a band since before she debuted in 1998. The band's name was publicised during the tour, however previous tours had featured backing bands with names, such as Gyakutai Glykogen for ''Gekokujyo Xstasy'' and Hatsuiku Status. The band was officially announced as Sheena's main musical unit on May 31, 2004, and first performed at a series of summer music festivals: ''Meet the World Beat 2004'' on July 25, 2004 at the Expo Commemoration Park in Osaka, July 30, 2004 at the Fuji Rock Festival in Niigata, and September 3, 2004 at the Fukuoka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanji
are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese and are still used, along with the subsequently-derived syllabic scripts of ''hiragana'' and ''katakana''. The characters have Japanese pronunciation, pronunciations; most have two, with one based on the Chinese sound. A few characters were invented in Japan by constructing character components derived from other Chinese characters. After World War II, Japan made its own efforts to simplify the characters, now known as shinjitai, by a process similar to China's simplified Chinese characters, simplification efforts, with the intention to increase literacy among the common folk. Since the 1920s, the Japanese government has published character lists periodically to help direct the education of its citizenry through the myriad Chinese characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Jihen
, also known as Tokyo Incidents, is a Japanese rock band formed by Ringo Sheena, after leaving her solo career. The band's debut single " Gunjō Biyori" was released in September 2004, and they ended activities in February 2012. The band sold 2.3 million albums, singles, and DVDs. The band reunited and released a new single on January 1, 2020. History Origins (2003) Tokyo Jihen started as Ringo Sheena's backing band at first for her last concert tour before ending the first half of her solo career. Sheena was contemplating working with a band while working on her last solo album, ''Kalk Samen'' ''Kuri no Hana''. She began looking for members of her backing band to support her solo tour " Sugoroku Ecstasy" in the Autumn of 2003. The tour band was introduced as Tokyo Jihen during the tour for the first time, featuring guitarist Mikio Hirama, pianist H Zett M, drummer Toshiki Hata, and familiar bassist Seiji Kameda. The musicians she selected became the core of what would become ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adult (album)
is the second studio album by Japanese alternative rock band Tokyo Jihen, released on January 25, 2006 in Japan through Toshiba EMI/ Virgin Music. The album was produced by the band and Japanese recording engineer Uni Inoue. The album reached number one on the Oricon Weekly Album Chart on February 6, 2006. Background Adult marked the debut for guitarist Ukigumo and keyboardist Ichiyō Izawa, who joined Tokyo Jihen after the departure of previous members Mikio Hirama and H Zett M (Masayuki Hiizumi). Ringo Sheena, Ichiyō Izawa and Ukigumo played a key role in this album and arranged songs while arguing. About ''Shuraba'', Sheena arranged the single version mainly, but, obeying Sheena’s wishes of not wanting to record the single version on the album as it is, Sheena, Izawa and Ukigumo re-arranged it based on the latter's proposal. In 2008, "Keshō Naoshi" was covered in Portuguese by Kaori Hayato on her first album ''Pluma'', and in concert by Kiyoshi Hasegawa, the recording ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NHK Educational TV
, abbreviated on-screen as NHK E, is the second television service of NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation). It is a sister service of NHK General TV, showing programs of a more educational, cultural or intellectual nature, periodically also showing anime, and also airing programming from Nickelodeon. A similar counterpart would be PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) of the United States (or to a lesser extent BBC Two and BBC Four of the UK). NHK displays a watermark "''NHK E''" at the upper right for its digital TV broadcast. In 2010, NHK began using the abbreviation . Overview Unlike NHK General Television (NHK G), which organizes programs differently for each region, it is based on a unified programming organization throughout Japan, so in the Kanto region, the three Tokai prefectures, and Kinki region, some prefectures broadcast. It is set as a broadcasting area equivalent to the wide area broadcasting of commercial broadcasting without setting . As a result, the number of br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryosuke Nagaoka
, is a Japanese musician, and singer and guitar player for the band Petrolz. Under the stage name , he was the second guitarist for Ringo Sheena's band Tokyo Jihen from 2005 until 2012. In 2013, Nagoka joined the band Gokumontō Ikka, a project involving Queen Bee leader Avu-chan. Biography He was born and raised in public housing in Chiba Prefecture. The first instrument he learned during his childhood was the piano, which he started learning at age 9. He was introduced to bluegrass music at an early age, as his father was an amateur bluegrass musician. He started playing the guitar as a junior in high school, and joined a country band. He is an avid motorcycle and French car aficionado. Nagaoka is an old friend of Shiina Ringo's, and he had played in a band with her elder brother Shiina Junpei, Evil Vibrations. He also participated in the recording of her third solo album, '' Kalk, Samen, Chestnut Flower'', on which he played guitar on the songs , and the vinyl record bonu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suita, Osaka
is a city located in northern Osaka Prefecture, Japan. As of October 1, 2016, the city has an estimated population of 378,322 and a population density of 9,880 persons per km². The total area is 36.11 km². The city was founded on April 1, 1940, and was the site of Expo '70, a World's Fair held in 1970. The J-League soccer club Gamba Osaka plays at Suita City Football Stadium. It is connected to central by Hankyu Railway, West Japan Railway Company and the Osaka Municipal Subway. The Osaka Monorail also passes through the area, connecting the city to Osaka, the Expo Commemoration Park and Osaka International Airport. Surrounding municipalities *Osaka Prefecture **Osaka (Yodogawa-ku, Higashiyodogawa-ku) ** Settsu ** Ibaraki ** Minoh ** Toyonaka Economy Major companies and industries * Asahi Suita Brewery * Headquarters of SNK, the producer of Neo Geo arcade boards and games * Mister Donut, a fast food franchise that offers doughnuts, coffee, muffins and pastries. Edu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kobe
Kobe ( , ; officially , ) is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture Japan. With a population around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Tokyo and Yokohama. It is located in Kansai region, which makes up the southern side of the main island of Honshū, on the north shore of Osaka Bay. It is part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kyoto. The Kobe city centre is located about west of Osaka and southwest of Kyoto. The earliest written records regarding the region come from the '' Nihon Shoki'', which describes the founding of the Ikuta Shrine by Empress Jingū in AD 201.Ikuta Shrine official website – "History of Ikuta Shrine" (Japanese) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palindromic Number
A palindromic number (also known as a numeral palindrome or a numeric palindrome) is a number (such as 16461) that remains the same when its digits are reversed. In other words, it has reflectional symmetry across a vertical axis. The term ''palindromic'' is derived from palindrome, which refers to a word (such as ''rotor'' or ''racecar'') whose spelling is unchanged when its letters are reversed. The first 30 palindromic numbers (in decimal) are: : 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 22, 33, 44, 55, 66, 77, 88, 99, 101, 111, 121, 131, 141, 151, 161, 171, 181, 191, 202, … . Palindromic numbers receive most attention in the realm of recreational mathematics. A typical problem asks for numbers that possess a certain property ''and'' are palindromic. For instance: * The palindromic primes are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 101, 131, 151, ... . * The palindromic square numbers are 0, 1, 4, 9, 121, 484, 676, 10201, 12321, ... . It is obvious that in any base there are infinitely many palindr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fuji Rock Festival
is an annual rock festival held in Naeba Ski Resort, in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. The three-day event, organized by Smash Japan, features more than 200 Japanese and international musicians, making it the largest outdoor music event in Japan. In 2005, more than 100,000 people attended the festival. Fuji Rock Festival is named so because the first event in 1997 was held at the base of Mount Fuji. Since 1999 the festival has been held at the Naeba Ski Resort in Yuzawa, Niigata. Festival grounds There are seven main stages and other minor stages scattered throughout the site. The Green stage is the main stage and it has a capacity for almost 50,000 spectators. Other stages include the White Stage, the Red Marquee, Orange Court, and Field of Heaven. The walks between some of the stages can be long, and some of the trails can be hilly, but the walks are beautiful, often taking you through forests and over sparkling streams. Dragondola – the longest gondola lift in the world, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Articles
The articles in English are the definite article ''the'' and the indefinite articles '' a'' and ''an''. The definite article is used when the speaker believes that the listener knows the identity of the noun's referent (because it is obvious, because it is common knowledge, or because it was mentioned in the same sentence or an earlier sentence). The indefinite article is used when the speaker believes that the listener does not have to be told the identity of the referent. No article is used in some noun phrases. English grammar requires that, in most cases, a singular, countable noun phrase start with a determiner. For example, ''I have a box'' is OK, but *''I have box'' is not. The most common determiners are the articles ''the'' and ''a''(''n''), which specify the presence or absence of definiteness of the noun. Other possible determiners include words like ''this'', ''my'', ''each'' and ''many''. There are also cases where no determiner is required, as in the sentence ''J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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