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World's 1st karaoke machine

Photo taken in Tokyo on June 12, 2025, shows the world's first karaoke machine, the "Music Box," invented and sold by late Japanese engineer Shigeichi Negishi in 1967. The U.S.-based Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Milestones program held a ceremony the same day in the Japanese capital to recognize the machine as a key achievement in the history of technology.

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A Brighter Summer Day

Ryan cutting Tang Tang’s hair before going to work, New Taipei City, Taiwan, 2019 'You will meet someone who will change your life when you are 25. Be patient, and take much care of him! Don’t take things the way I did; all the sadness and horrible things you have encountered are to make yourself a better person now. Believe in yourself, be brave, then you will have a fairytale-like happy ending.' Tang Tang Tang Tang (left) and Ryan met at the KTV for a karaoke with their co-workers. That night Ryan had not wanted to go out, he had just lost his mother and was very depressed. Dragged there by his colleagues, he spent the evening crying in a corner, with Tang Tang trying to make him feel better. They have been together for 4 years now and they recently flew to Las Vegas to get married as it remained illegal in Taiwan. They respectively work as actor and hair dresser, and have to hide their relationship in order to keep certain costumers. Photo by Su Cassiano/Middle East Images/ABACAPRESS.COM

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QUEEN OF THE ROAD

QUEEN OF THE ROAD, Female truck driver, home, attendance, women, social advancement, working women, Kunugida Leasing Corporation, karaoke=Date:1994, Place:JAPAN

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'Karaoke Shrine' popular in southwestern Japan

OITA, Japan - Akikazu Eto (L), an Oita prefectural assemblyman and head "priest" of the "Karaoke Shrine" in Kitsuki in the southwestern Japan prefecture, sings a duet with a local resident on Oct. 25, 2014. The facility has become a popular socializing venue among karaoke lovers since it opened 25 years ago.

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'Karaoke Shrine' popular in southwestern Japan

OITA, Japan - The "Karaoke Shrine" in Kitsuki, Oita Prefecture, southwestern Japan, has its own "torii" gateway, just like that at the entrance to a real Shinto shrine, as seen in this photo taken Oct. 25, 2014. The facility has become a popular socializing venue among karaoke lovers since it opened 25 years ago.

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Convenience store combined with karaoke box

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows "FamilyMart plus Karaoke DAM" store near JR Kamata Station in Tokyo's Ota Ward on April 17, 2014, its opening day. It is the first hybrid store combining a convenience store and karaoke booths opened by FamilyMart Co. and karaoke business operator Daiichikosho Co.

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Business as usual at Sochi gay bar despite fuss over law

SOCHI, Russia - A gay couple sing karaoke at Mayak, a gay bar in Sochi, Russia, on Feb. 14, 2014. The nightclub has become a focus of international media attention on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics amid controversy over Russia's law banning "gay propaganda."

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"Karaoke" systems in demand at facilities for elderly

TOKYO, Japan - Seniors exercise together with an instructor as they watch a video screened on an online karaoke system on Oct. 4, 2013 at Day Home Akatsutsumi, a day-care center for the aged in Tokyo's Setagaya Ward. (Photo partially modified to conceal private information)

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4 policemen sexually harassed female colleague

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo shows Kanagawa prefectural police's Yamato Police Station on July 27, 2012. Four policemen who belonged to the police station, including three who are still working there, are facing internal discipline after a female colleague in her 20s was forced to take off her clothes and forcibly kissed at a karaoke parlor in March 2012, the prefectural police said on July 27, 2012.

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Karaoke box for one

TOKYO, Japan - A man sings a song in a booth at a ''One Kara'' karaoke box near JR Kanda station in Tokyo on Dec. 27, 2011. The karaoke box has only single-person booths for customers who want to sing alone.

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Mt. Kumgang resort in N. Korea

BEIJING, China - A photo taken on July 4, 2011 shows the entrance to a karaoke bar with a sign announcing it is closed at Kumgangsan Hotel in Gangwon Province, North Korea.

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Ex-karaoke outlet owner gets 4 yrs for fatal fire in Hyogo

KOBE, Japan - Holding the photographs of three victims who died in a fire in January at a karaoke bar in Takarazuka, Hyogo Prefecture, the victims' relatives attend a news conference in Kobe on Dec. 12 after the Kobe District Court sentenced the former karaoke outlet owner to four years in prison for professional negligence.

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CD-, DVD-attached confectionery selling fast

TOKYO, Japan - Throat candy ''Karaokemax,'' put on sale by Daiichikosho Co. at its karaoke parlors, is attached to CD and a booklet for teaching singing.

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Takara faces patent suit over hit home karaoke system

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows the e.kara portable home karaoke system marketed by Takara Co. Patent control company Ricos Co. said July 11 it filed a 900 million yen damages suit against Takara, claiming the toy maker violates one of its patents.

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Japan's biggest karaoke house to open in Nagoya

NAGOYA, Japan - The nation's biggest karaoke house will open in Nagoya on June 18, featuring a total of 130 karaoke rooms. The Nishiki Karaokekan, operated by the Tokyo-based karaoke operator B&V, occupies eight floors in an 11-story building in the Nishiki district of Nagoya.

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U.S. crewmen relax at ''karaoke'' party

ABOARD THE KITTY HAWK, Persian Gulf - Crewmen enjoy a ''karaoke'' singing party aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk on the evening of March 22.

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2 teens, woman die in Mie Pref. car crash

TSU, Japan - A wrecked car lies at the roadside March 11 after a head-on collision that took the lives of two high school students and a woman on Route 42 in Matsuzaka, Mie Prefecture. The boys' car was attempting to pass another vehicle and crashed head on into the woman's car. The three teenagers in the car, none of whom had a driving license, were on the way home from a karaoke outing.

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PHILIPPINES-PASAY CITY-MOTOR SHOW

(220917) -- PASAY CITY, Sept. 17, 2022 (Xinhua) -- People sing along using a karaoke installed inside a concept modern public utility jeepney at the Philippine International Motor Show in Pasay City, the Philippines, Sept. 17, 2022. (Xinhua/Rouelle Umali)

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