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Hatsune Miku Performs At The Zenith - Paris

Hatsune Miku performs at the Zenith in Paris, France on October 29, 2024. Photo by Christophe Meng / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hatsune Miku Performs At The Zenith - Paris

Hatsune Miku performs at the Zenith in Paris, France on October 29, 2024. Photo by Christophe Meng / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hatsune Miku Performs At The Zenith - Paris

Hatsune Miku performs at the Zenith in Paris, France on October 29, 2024. Photo by Christophe Meng / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hatsune Miku Performs At The Zenith - Paris

Hatsune Miku performs at the Zenith in Paris, France on October 29, 2024. Photo by Christophe Meng / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hatsune Miku Performs At The Zenith - Paris

Hatsune Miku performs at the Zenith in Paris, France on October 29, 2024. Photo by Christophe Meng / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hatsune Miku Performs At The Zenith - Paris

Hatsune Miku performs at the Zenith in Paris, France on October 29, 2024. Photo by Christophe Meng / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hatsune Miku Performs At The Zenith - Paris

Hatsune Miku performs at the Zenith in Paris, France on October 29, 2024. Photo by Christophe Meng / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hatsune Miku Performs At The Zenith - Paris

Hatsune Miku performs at the Zenith in Paris, France on October 29, 2024. Photo by Christophe Meng / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hatsune Miku Performs At The Zenith - Paris

Hatsune Miku performs at the Zenith in Paris, France on October 29, 2024. Photo by Christophe Meng / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hatsune Miku Performs At The Zenith - Paris

Hatsune Miku performs at the Zenith in Paris, France on October 29, 2024. Photo by Christophe Meng / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hatsune Miku Performs At The Zenith - Paris

Hatsune Miku performs at the Zenith in Paris, France on October 29, 2024. Photo by Christophe Meng / ABACAPRESS.COM

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Hokkaido woos tourists through campaign in Singapore

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Alan Lim (L), area vice president of Singapore Airlines, and Sapporo Deputy Mayor Tadafumi Inoue pose in front of a bus decorated with images of vocaloid Hatsune Miku and local products of Japan's Hokkaido on Oct. 3, 2014, in Singapore. The campaign for Japan's northernmost prefecture continues through Dec. 25.

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Sapporo deputy mayor shows bus to promote Hokkaido

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Sapporo Deputy Mayor Tadafumi Inoue shows one of the 10 buses riddled with ads that feature popular virtual singer Hatsune Miku and Hokkaido's cuisine and tourist attractions on Oct.3, 2014, in Singapore. The campaign for Japan's northernmost prefecture continues through Dec. 25.

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Hatsune Miku train in Bangkok

BANGKOK, Thailand - Passengers board a train in Bangkok painted with an illustration of Hatsune Miku, a popular Japanese character, on Aug. 16, 2013. The train bearing the advertisement -- paid for by the city government of Sapporo to attract more Thai tourists to the northern Japanese city -- will run between Bangkok international airport and central Bangkok until mid-September.

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Hatsune Miku brings about change in Japan music scene

TOKYO, Japan - Graphics designer Atsushi Wakamura smiles in Tokyo on Oct. 3, 2012, in front of computer panels showing promotion videos he has created for Hatsune Miku, a computer-generated idol singer. (Photo by Makoto Hori)

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Hatsune Miku brings about change in Japan music scene

TOKYO, Japan - Songwriter Hachioji P responds to cheers from the audience during a live concert in Tokyo on July 14, 2012, featuring the Hatsune Miku computer-generated idol singer. He wrote a song for Miku and took the role of DJ for the concert. (Photo by Toshiki Makino)

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Sony's Hatsune Miku limited-edition Walkman

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Sony Corp.'s Walkman portable music player with popular virtual idol Hatsune Miku etched on the back commemorating her fifth "birthday." Sony said on Aug. 3, 2012, that it will release in mid-August the limited edition. Online orders for 3,939 units of the model have been finished as being fully booked, according to the company the same day.

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Hatsune Miku snow statue

SAPPORO, Japan - A new 3-meter-tall snow statue of Hatsune Miku, a girl idol character for singing software, is built at Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido on Feb. 11, 2012. A previous Miku statue collapsed on its own on Feb. 7, 2012, apparently due to warm weather, injuring a passer-by.

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Snow statue of Hatsune Miku

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo shows a 3-meter-tall snow statue of Hatsune Miku, a girl idol character for singing software, at Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido on Feb. 6, 2012. The statue collapsed due to warmer weather the following day, injuring a passer-by.

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Vocaloid character Miku to promote Sapporo

SAPPORO, Japan - Sapporo Mayor Fumio Ueda (L) and Crypton Future Media Inc. President Hiroyuki Ito shake hands in Sapporo on Dec. 2, 2010, after signing a contract to use singing vocaloid character Hatsune Miku (picture in the back) to promote the city.

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Virtual pop idol Hatsune Miku's 1st China gig

Japanese composer Isao Tomita, best known for his electronic compositions, speaks at a concert in Beijing on May 20, 2015. The concert combined performance by Japanese virtual pop sensation Hatsune Miku and Tomita's score inspired by Ihatov, a fictional utopia created by Japanese writer Kenji Miyazawa. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Makeup event for Sapporo Snow Festival

A snow sculpture of virtual singer Hatsune Miku is pictured at Sapporo Hitsujigaoka Observation Hill in Sapporo, northern Japan, on Feb. 3, 2021. It was created for an online event that began on Feb. 4 to make up for the cancellation of the annual Sapporo Snow Festival due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Snow statue of Hatsune Miku

SAPPORO, Japan - Photo shows a 3-meter-tall snow statue of Hatsune Miku, a girl idol character for singing software, at Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido on Feb. 6, 2012. The statue collapsed due to warmer weather the following day, injuring a passer-by. (Kyodo)

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Hatsune Miku snow statue

SAPPORO, Japan - A new 3-meter-tall snow statue of Hatsune Miku, a girl idol character for singing software, is built at Sapporo Snow Festival in Hokkaido on Feb. 11, 2012. A previous Miku statue collapsed on its own on Feb. 7, 2012, apparently due to warm weather, injuring a passer-by. (Kyodo)

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Hokkaido woos tourists through campaign in Singapore

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Alan Lim (L), area vice president of Singapore Airlines, and Sapporo Deputy Mayor Tadafumi Inoue pose in front of a bus decorated with images of vocaloid Hatsune Miku and local products of Japan's Hokkaido on Oct. 3, 2014, in Singapore. The campaign for Japan's northernmost prefecture continues through Dec. 25. (Kyodo)

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Sapporo deputy mayor shows bus to promote Hokkaido

SINGAPORE, Singapore - Sapporo Deputy Mayor Tadafumi Inoue shows one of the 10 buses riddled with ads that feature popular virtual singer Hatsune Miku and Hokkaido's cuisine and tourist attractions on Oct.3, 2014, in Singapore. The campaign for Japan's northernmost prefecture continues through Dec. 25. (Kyodo)

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Vocaloid character Miku to promote Sapporo

SAPPORO, Japan - Sapporo Mayor Fumio Ueda (L) and Crypton Future Media Inc. President Hiroyuki Ito shake hands in Sapporo on Dec. 2, 2010, after signing a contract to use singing vocaloid character Hatsune Miku (picture in the back) to promote the city. (Kyodo)

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Exhibition juxtaposes pop icons and traditional Japanese paintings

A scroll piece featuring a bird by Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800) and virtual pop singer Hatsune Miku is on display in an exhibition in Kyoto on Sept. 13, 2017. The free exhibition titled "We will inherit Japan," scheduled to run through Sept. 25, features famous anime and manga characters as well as other Japanese pop culture icons depicted in the style of traditional Japanese painting. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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SCE's Morpheus VR headset showcased at ChinaJoy 2015 in Shanghai

A person wearing Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.'s Morpheus virtual reality system headset watches virtual pop sensation Hatsune Miku at the China Digital Entertainment Expo & Conference 2015, or ChinaJoy 2015, in Shanghai, on July 30, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo