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Australia: Massive Fire Erupts in Burpengary, Public Safety Preservation Act Issued

A massive fire broke out at a structure in Burpengary on Wednesday evening, June 11, prompting a Public Safety Preservation Act declaration. Residents were advised to close windows, and motorists were warned to drive with caution.

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S. Korean DJ groping incident

CEO Rakuyo Otsuki (C) and other representatives from event organizer TryHard Japan Co. hold a press conference in the western Japan city of Osaka on Aug. 21, 2023, after filing a criminal complaint the same day over an incident in which a popular South Korean DJ was allegedly groped by audience members during a music event she attended.

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Music From Japan concert in N.Y.

Local musicians perform works written by Japanese composers in an event organized by Music From Japan, a non-profit organization aiming to introduce Japanese music and culture to U.S. audiences, in New York on March 5, 2023.

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Conductor Albrecht dies

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken in December 2001 shows German conductor Gerd Albrecht. Albrecht died Feb. 2, 2014, in Berlin from an illness at the age of 78. He led the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra as principal conductor from 1998 to 2007 after serving as music director of Germany's Hamburg State Opera and chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic.

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Miyagi high school students practice for Rose Parade

PASADENA, United States - High school students from Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, practice music on Dec. 31, 2014, before participating in the Rose Parade in Pasadena, California, to show their gratitude for the "Operation Tomodachi" relief effort. The U.S. armed forces conducted the operation following the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Miyagi and other prefectures in the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku.

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Osaka pop ballad diva on stage with songwriter

OSAKA, Japan - Reiko Kano, a singer of Japanese "enka" popular ballads who is known as the "Diva of Tsutenkaku," a landmark tower in Osaka, and others pose on stage during a music show produced by songwriter and composer Taiji Nakamura (3rd from R) at the Dotonbori ZAZA theater in the western Japan city on Dec. 19, 2014.

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Fukushima kids play at concert for post-quake recovery

SENDAI, Japan - Children from Soma, Fukushima Prefecture, perform during an international concert in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 1, 2014, the first day of a nine-day music event intended to support reconstruction from the 2011 disaster that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku.

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School band plays at concert for post-quake recovery

SENDAI, Japan - A brass band of Miyagi Technical High School performs jointly with a jazz band, led by Japanese musician Kenichi Tsunoda, during an international concert in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, on Nov. 1, 2014, the first day of a nine-day music event to support reconstruction from the 2011 disaster that hit the northeastern Japan region of Tohoku.

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Largest ensemble of shamisen performers

TOKYO, Japan - More than 1,000 performers of "Tsugaru shamisen," a type of music played with the shamisen three-stringed, Japanese musical instrument, gather at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2014, to set a world record for the largest shamisen ensemble. Under the eye of staff from Guinness World Records Japan, they set a record when 1,124 performers played together. According to Guinness World Records, the previous world record in the category was set in 1999 at Tokyo Dome when 815 shamisen players performed together.

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Largest ensemble of shamisen performers

TOKYO, Japan - More than 1,000 performers of "Tsugaru shamisen," a type of music played with the shamisen three-stringed, Japanese musical instrument, gather at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2014, to set a world record for the largest shamisen ensemble. Under the eye of staff from Guinness World Records Japan, they set a record when 1,124 performers played together. According to Guinness World Records, the previous world record in the category was set in 1999 at Tokyo Dome when 815 shamisen players performed together.

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Largest ensemble of shamisen performers

TOKYO, Japan - More than 1,000 performers of "Tsugaru shamisen," a type of music played with the shamisen three-stringed, Japanese musical instrument, gather at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2014, to set a world record for the largest shamisen ensemble. Under the eye of staff from Guinness World Records Japan, they set a record when 1,124 performers played together. According to Guinness World Records, the previous world record in the category was set in 1999 at Tokyo Dome when 815 shamisen players performed together.

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Emperor, empress acknowledge cheers at outdoor concert

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (L) and Empress Michiko acknowledge cheers from visitors at an outdoor concert by the Imperial Guard Music Band in the Imperial Palace on Oct. 21, 2014, held to celebrate their 80th birthdays last December and this October, respectively. (Pool photo)

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Japan firm demonstrates cassette tape player for cars

NAGOYA, Japan - Beat-Sonic Inc., a Japanese audio equipment maker based in Nisshin, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, demonstrates on Oct. 10, 2014, a cassette tape player for use in cars developed to meet demand from consumers wishing to listen to music stored on old tapes. The device can play reproduce music from USB memory sticks and SD cards.

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Japanese firm develops cassette tape player for cars

NAGOYA, Japan - Beat-Sonic Inc., a Japanese audio equipment maker based in Nisshin, Aichi Prefecture, central Japan, puts on sale on Oct. 10, 2014, a cassette tape player for use in cars to meet demand from consumers wishing to listen to music stored on old tapes. The device can also play music from USB memory sticks and SD cards.

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Conductor Ozawa performs with Niyama

MATSUMOTO, Japan - Haruo Niyama, a 17-year-old high school student who won an international ballet competition in Lausanne, Switzerland, in February, performs to Mozart's Minuet conducted by Seiji Ozawa (L) during the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in the city of Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on Sept. 6, 2014. The annual festival, which is one of the premier classical music festivals in Japan, will be renamed the Seiji Ozawa Matsumto Festival from next year.

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Conductor Ozawa performs with Niyama

MATSUMOTO, Japan - Haruo Niyama, a 17-year-old high school student who won an international ballet competition in Lausanne, Switzerland, in February, performs to Mozart's Minuet conducted by Seiji Ozawa (R) during the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in the city of Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on Sept. 6, 2014. The annual festival, which is one of the premier classical music festivals in Japan, will be renamed the Seiji Ozawa Matsumto Festival from next year.

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Conductor Ozawa performs with Niyama

MATSUMOTO, Japan - Haruo Niyama, a 17-year-old high school student who won an international ballet competition in Lausanne, Switzerland, in February, performs to Mozart's Minuet conducted by Seiji Ozawa (L) during the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in the city of Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on Sept. 6, 2014. The annual festival, which is one of the premier classical music festivals in Japan, will be renamed the Seiji Ozawa Matsumto Festival from next year.

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Traditional early autumn festival in Toyama

TOYAMA, Japan - Women wearing woven hats perform a dance to the music of strings during a traditional festival in Yatsuo town in Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, on Sept. 1, 2014, to pray for the protection of rice plants from the seasonal strong winds.

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SKF Matsumoto to be renamed Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival

TOKYO, Japan - Renowned conductor Seiji Ozawa gives a press conference in Tokyo on Aug. 4, 2014, regarding the renaming of the annual Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto, a music festival in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, to "Seiji Ozawa Matsumoto Festival" from next year.

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Prince Akishino's family attends Peruvian concert

TOKYO, Japan - Prince Akishino (C), his wife Kiko (2nd from R) and their daughters Mako and Kako are seated at a Peruvian music concert in Tokyo on July 25, 2014, to commemorate last year's 140th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Japan and Peru. (Pool photo)

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Imperial family members watch folk performing arts

TOKYO, Japan - Emperor Akihito (2nd from R), Empress Michiko (extreme R), Crown Prince Naruhito (2nd from L), Crown Princess Masako (extreme L) and other imperial family members watch folk performing arts from various parts of Japan on July 13, 2014, at a music hall in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo to celebrate the emperor's 80th birthday on Dec. 23 last year. (Pool Photo)

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Japanese performers commemorate Lafcadio Hearn in Greece

LEFKADA, Greece - Japanese actor Shiro Sano (L) recites passages from works of Lafcadio Hearn, aka Koizumi Yakumo, an author originally from Lefkada, Greece, with music played by Japanese guitarist Kyoji Yamamoto on the Greek island on July 5, 2014, to mark the 110th anniversary of Hearn's birth. Both Sano and Yamamoto are from Matsue, Shimane Prefecture, western Japan, where Hearn spent his later life.

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Singer Kato to release song about Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Japanese singer Tokiko Kato (C) talks with Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) at Hiroshima City Hall on June 24, 2014, a day before releasing her song CD of a poem by Keiji Nakazawa, late cartoon artist from Hiroshima who wrote manga series "Barefoot Gen." On the left is Katsuhiko Yamamoto, who composed the music.

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Guitarist Friedman promotes Japanese music

TOKYO, Japan - Guitarist Marty Friedman, a former member of heavy metal band Megadeth, lectures about Japanese music including J-pop to arts and music major students, visiting from the United States as part of the "KAKEHASHI Project" for youth exchange with the North American region, at the Japan Foundation in Tokyo on June 18, 2014.

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Hula dance performance at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu in Kamakura

YOKOHAMA, Japan - People from the Hawaiian island of Kauai dance a hula on the Maiden, a stage for dance and music performances, at the Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, on May 17, 2014.

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Hula dance performance at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu in Kamakura

YOKOHAMA, Japan - People from the Hawaiian island of Kauai dance a hula on the Maiden, a stage for dance and music performances, at the Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo, on May 17, 2014.

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Paul McCartney postpones Tokyo concert due to ill health

TOKYO, Japan - The area around an entry gate to the National Stadium in Tokyo is crowded with music fans on May 17, 2014, for an evening concert by Paul McCartney that was postponed due to the ex-Beatle's ill health. McCartney said in a Twitter message, "I came down with a virus on Friday (May 17) and following a visit from doctors, I've been told not to perform tonight."

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Paul McCartney postpones Tokyo concert due to ill health

TOKYO, Japan - The area around an entry gate to the National Stadium in Tokyo is crowded with music fans on May 17, 2014, for an evening concert by Paul McCartney that was postponed due to the ex-Beatle's ill health. McCartney said in a Twitter message, "I came down with a virus on Friday (May 17) and following a visit from doctors, I've been told not to perform tonight."

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Concert in N.Y. on eve of quake anniversary

NEW YORK, United States - Photo taken March 10, 2014, shows a joint concert by Japanese university students and U.S. music school students held in New York to commemorate the third anniversary of the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster in northeastern Japan. Five university students from Fukushima Prefecture, hit hard by the 2011 calamity, joined students of a public music school for children, along with members of the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra.

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Apology letter from Samuragochi

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows a handwritten apology from Mamoru Samuragochi, sent by his attorney via facsimile to Kyodo News on Feb. 12, 2014, for having long lied about pieces of classical music released under his name. A music lecturer said in early February that he has worked as a ghostwriter for Samuragochi for nearly 20 years.

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Korean singer helps deepen Japan-Korea bond

SEOUL, South Korea - Singer Chon Wol Son, a second-generation Korean resident in Japan, receives an award from the Japan-Korea Cultural Foundation at a ceremony on Sept. 25, 2013 in Seoul. The soprano, who has sung songs from Japan and Korea for three decades, was recognized for her contributions to deepening the bilateral relations through music.

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Japanese-Israel violinist Mei

OITA, Japan - Photo taken July 18, 2013 in Oita City, Oita Prefecture shows Japanese-Israel violinist Mei, who has collaborated with bands in all genres of music from jazz to pop to reach as wide an audience as possible, since returning from Israel to Japan 4 years ago.

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Japan toy show

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows Bandai Co.'s new smartphone-style toy at the 2013 International Tokyo Toy Show at Tokyo Big Sight in Tokyo's Koto Ward on June 13, 2013. The toy, a winner at the 2013 Japan Toy Awards, plays music and the voice of the heroine from the "Doki Doki! Precure" animated series.

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Conductor Seiji Ozawa

TOKYO, Japan - Conductor Seiji Ozawa holds a press conference in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on April 3, 2013. Ozawa said he will take to the podium for two concerts in late July given by a chamber music ensemble of young string players from Asia.

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Empress attends charity concert for quake victims

TOKYO, Japan - Empress Michiko arrives at the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan hall in Tokyo's Taito Ward on the night of March 28, 2013, to attend a charity concert organized to support the victims of the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami disaster. Students from disaster-hit Fukushima Prefecture gave choral and instrumental performances, including Mozart's Requiem and traditional Japanese koto string music.

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Taiko, flute concert in U.S.

NEW YORK, United States - Japanese American musicians Kenny Endo (L) and Kaoru Watanabe perform in a Japanese drum and flute concert at the Music From Japan Festival in New York on Feb. 23, 2013. The event paid tribute to residents of areas struck by the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disasters.

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New "Dragon Quest" title hits Japanese market

TOKYO, Japan - Yuji Horii (L), the creator of "Dragon Quest," hands a new software title in the popular game series to Kensuke Matayoshi, a 33-year-old part-time employee who became the first person to purchase the game at the Tsutaya movie and music rental shop in Tokyo's Shibuya district, on Aug. 2, 2012, its launch day, after waiting outside the shop from the previous day. Japanese game developer Square Enix Co. launched "Dragon Quest 10 -- Mezameshi Itsutsu no Shuzoku (five awakened tribes) Online" for Nintendo Co.'s Wii home game console.

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Mexican music academy closes

LOS ANGELES, United States - Photo shows Japanese violinist Yuriko Kuronuma in Mexico City on June 30, 2012, and violins to be donated to the Mexican culture and music agency. The music academy for children run by her in Mexico closed in late June due to a decrease in enrollees after being founded in 1980 with donations from Japan.

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Japanese musician Suzuki

LEIPZIG, Germany - Japanese conductor and organist Masaaki Suzuki (R) holds the 2012 Bach Medal on June 8, 2012, as he receives the award from the German city of Leipzig for his contribution to disseminating Johann Sebastian Bach's music, particularly in Japan.

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Japanese musician Suzuki

TOKYO, Japan - File photo from August 2002 shows Japanese conductor and organist Masaaki Suzuki. He received the 2012 Bach Medal on June 8, 2012, from the German city of Leipzig for his contribution to disseminating Johann Sebastian Bach's music, particularly in Japan.

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows Hidekazu Yoshida (R), a Japanese classical music critic, receiving the Order of Culture from Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in November 2006. Yoshida died of acute heart failure on May 22, 2012, at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was 98.

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Classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida dies at 98

TOKYO, Japan - File photo taken in Tokyo in December 2011 shows (from L) novelist Saiichi Maruya, classical music critic Hidekazu Yoshida and conductor Seiji Ozawa, chatting at a party to celebrate the awarding of the Order of Culture to Maruya. Yoshida died of acute heart failure on May 22, 2012, at his home in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. He was 98.

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'Music from Japan' festival in New York

NEW YORK, United States - Harpist Fuyuhiko Sasaki plays a restored ''kugo'' harp that was used in ancient Asia, during the ''Music from Japan'' festival in Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center in New York on Feb. 18, 2012.

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German president visits Fukushima

IWAKI, Japan - German President Christian Wulff (3rd from R, seated) attends a classical music concert given by 18 Japanese and German students at an aquarium in the city of Iwaki in Fukushima Prefecture on Oct. 25, 2011. The president visited the prefecture to encourage local people struggling in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and ensuing nuclear crisis.

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Japan thanks EXILE, other musicians for Vietnam event

TOKYO, Japan - HIRO (C, standing), leader of popular Japanese male vocal and dance act EXILE, speaks at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Oct. 25, 2011, on behalf of artists who performed at the 2nd Japan-Vietnam friendship music festival earlier in the month in Vietnam. They received the certificates of appreciation from the Japanese government for their contributions to the bilateral friendship. The certificates with the name of Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba were presented by Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura.

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Maestro Ozawa back to podium

MATSUMOTO, Japan - Conductor Seiji Ozawa (2nd from R) joins the curtain call at a music festival in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on Aug. 27, 2011, after conducting the Saito Kinen Orchestra in Bela Bartok's one-act opera ''Bluebeard's Castle.'' Ozawa had cancelled his appearances twice due to health problems.

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Lady Gaga arrives in Japan

NARITA, Japan - Popular American pop singer-songwriter Lady Gaga (far L) responds to cheers from some 200 avid fans who waited for her arrival at Narita airport, east of Tokyo, on June 21, 2011. She is visiting Japan mainly to attend a charity music event, to be held June 25, for the victims of the March 11 killer earthquake and tsunami in the northeast.

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Panel on promotion of renewable energy

TOKYO, Japan - (From R to L) Softbank Corp. President Masayoshi Son, music producer Takeshi Kobayashi, former Japan national soccer team coach Takeshi Okada and journalist on environmental issues Junko Edahiro attend the first meeting of a newly launched panel on the promotion of renewable energy at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on June 12, 2011.

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Maestro Ozawa in Matsumoto for music festival

NAGANO, Japan - Renowned Japanese conductor Seiji Ozawa (2nd from R) poses for photos at a press conference in Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture, on June 7, 2011, ahead of the Saito Kinen Festival Matsumoto in the central Japan city from Aug. 8 to 31. The music festival directed by Ozawa is also scheduled to be held in Beijing and Shanghai in September.

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Tsugaru folk music played in Vladivostok

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia - Japanese musicians Shigeri Kitsu (L) and Katsuaki Sawada (R), a Tsugaru shamisen player, play folk music from northeastern Japan with Russian musicians in Vladivostok, Russia, on March 9, 2011.