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He is also music director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and music partner of the New Japan Philharmonic.
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"This revision will reduce the spread of copyright infringement activities on the internet, " said the body's chairman Naoki Kitagawa, who is also chief executive of Sony Music Entertainment Japan, earlier this year.
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But along the way Maezawa took note of a business that hadn't arrived yet in Japan: music merchandising at festivals and outside of big-venue concerts.
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According to legend, travelling performers of "bugaku, " the ritual dance and music of the imperial palace, visited Hachimantai Town in northern Japan in the early eighth century, during the reconstruction of Dainichido, the shrine pavilion.
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In Japan illegal uploads of copyright infringing music and videos carry a maximum 10 year prison sentence and a 10 million yen fine.
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One of the joys of living in Japan is the quality and quantity indeed, ubiquity of orchestral music available to city residents.
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And even in some major economies such as Japan and Germany, three quarters of music is still sold in a physical format.
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Founded Tsutaya, one of Japan's leading movie-, music- and game-rental chains.
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The UK remains the third biggest market for music behind the US and Japan - and the number of new albums sent to retailers in July, August and September 2003 reached an all-time high of 230 million.
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Jobs surely hasn't forgotten that before the introduction of the iPhone, Sony seemed poised (briefly) to derail Apple's iPod when it slapped the Walkman brand on a line of music-friendly Sony Ericsson handsets that have sold well in Japan.
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Western classical music was introduced into Japan about a century ago, and since then has become one of the West's most successful exports to that country.
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