"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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After making big plays in North America and Western Europe, former P2P piracy powerhouse and current legitimate download service Napster has finally set up shop in Asia, bringing its war with iTunes to the world's second-largest music market: Japan.
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.
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.
He is also music director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and music partner of the New Japan Philharmonic.
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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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Later the Portuguese transmitted European Renaissance church music in the 16th century before Japan was closed to most Westerners.
The festival peaks on Whitsunday (19 May) with a street parade, which features colourful dance groups from Korea and Japan, trucks blaring music from Brazil and Angola, plus Irish folk, Jamaican dancehall, Caribbean soca and more.
In Japan illegal uploads of copyright infringing music and videos carry a maximum 10 year prison sentence and a 10 million yen fine.
BBC: Japan introduces piracy penalties for illegal downloads
And even in some major economies such as Japan and Germany, three quarters of music is still sold in a physical format.
Founded Tsutaya, one of Japan's leading movie-, music- and game-rental chains.
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.
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.
More than thirty years after triggering a music and lifestyle revolution, Sony has officially retired the Walkman in Japan (there is still a lone model for sale in the U.S.).
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