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| | Mikami Kan, Japanese musical adventurer |
 | | Kans history as a performer reaches back to the 1970 student rebellion, Japans version of the international movement that had hit Paris and the US in 1968. |
 | | Born into a family of squid fishermen in the tiny town of Kodomari on Japans north coast, he had moved to the regional center of Goshogawara, Aomori, for high school. |
 | | He recalls that it was a complete culture shock to suddenly find himself in the bohemian, musical, student environment of a town that today seems small and regional, but then seemed like the most exciting place in the world. |
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