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	The Runaways - Music Downloads - Online
		A concert record, Live in Japan, was culled from the tour, but wasn't released in the U.S. Despite this taste of success, relationships between some of the group members had begun to fray, thanks partly to substance abuse problems and partly to unconcerned negligence on the management's part.
		Blue quit the band after their New Year's gig and was replaced by Laurie McAllister, but to no avail; Jett left the group in April 1979, and the Runaways officially disbanded not long after.
		Jett formed her own band and record label, landed an enormous number one smash with 1982's "I Love Rock n' Roll," and continued to produce albums of tough hard rock into the '90s.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/169/The-Runaways/1039640.html (1054 words)

	Wikinfo \| Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Japan (Nippon/Nihon 日本, literal meaning: Source of Sun) is a country in eastern East Asia, made up of an island chain between the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, east of the Korean peninsula.
		Japan is academically considered a constitutional monarchy with a bicameral parliament, the Kokkai or Diet but most of Japanese feel strange to the term monarchy and quite a few scholars argue Japan is a republic nation.
		As Japan is situated in a volcanic zone along the Pacific deeps, frequent low intensity earth tremors and occasional volcanic activity are felt throughout the islands.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Japan (1878 words)

	Cal Band Alumni Association - History Book
		Not every Band member is fortunate enough to have gone to a bowl game, an NCAA basketball tournament, or on a major performance tour, but almost every Band member has traveled to a football game in Los Angeles or on another road trip of some kind.
		As the Band was preparing to land in Oakland, it was delirious with joy.
		Band members had to endure sleeping entire nights on a moving bus, under the seats, up in the luggage racks, locked in the bus bathroom, or anywhere they could stretch their legs after the soreness of marching, dancing, and loading and unloading props.
	www.calband.berkeley.edu /calband/cbaa/historybook/chap11.html (2290 words)

	Japan
		Japan's new ambitions led to invasion wars that exploited and killed thousands of people in mainland China (1895) and Russia (1905) in which Japan wrongfully acquired Korea, Taiwan and other territories.
		The early 20th century saw Japan come under increasing influence of an expansionist military, leading to the invasion of Manchuria, a second Sino-Japanese War (1937), and an attack on US based in Pearl Harbor (1941), the former 9.11 attack, in World War II.
		Post-war devastated Japan, now restored to its present size without returning back the Sea of Korea[?] and the Loochoo Islands[?], remained under US tutelage until 1952, when it embarked on a remarkable economic recovery that returned prosperity to the islands.
	www.fastload.org /ja/Japan.html (1714 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Japan - the Band
		Japan was formed in the mid-1970s when brothers Steve and David Batt from Beckenham, Kent (UK) formed a band whilst still at school.
		The band had a glam rock image which was being overtaken by the punk movement at the time.
		Japan ended as a unit in a final concert in Nagoya, Japan on 16 December, 1982.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A750061 (1295 words)

	X Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The last release of X Japan that years was a compilation of most of the singles that the band released during they were called only X, that compilation was called X Singles.
		In 1982 when the band was formed, they began to play in cultural events and parties, with this X Japan began to obtain a fan base.
		Finally the band, because of its dissolution did their last live performance at the Tokyo Dome on December 31, 1997, which was known as The Last Live.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/X_Japan (2091 words)

	Japan Quiet Life Tour Report
		All the band have to do is set up their gear on one side of the stage and at the appointed moment a button will be pushed and the band will slide into view already playing, just like they used to on Ready Steady Go.
		The band tell me it's one of those revolving ones, and glancing down at the city's twinkling lights as they swim slowly rounc believe their little joke: Japan know all about boozy journalists, although in self defence say that just about anyone would seem Iike an alcoholic compared to this abstemious band.
		Japan is so crowded that the almost overwhelming politeness and orderliness an: efficiency you notice everywhere is not just desirable but essential if the place is not to become a barbaric concrete jungle.
	www.nightporter.co.uk /pages/japan80.htm (7400 words)

	The National Anthem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The band members, after consulting with their director, requested Artillery Captain Oyama Iwao (1842–1916) from present-day Kagoshima Prefecture, who was well versed in Japanese and Chinese history and literature, to select appropriate words for such an anthem.
		It was performed, with the accompaniment of brass instruments, during an army parade in 1870, but it was later considered to be lacking in solemnity, and it was agreed that a revision was needed.
		In 1876, Nakamura Suketsune, the director of the Naval Band, submitted to the Navy Ministry a proposal for changing the music, and on the basis of his proposal it was decided that the new melody should reflect the style used in musical chants performed at the imperial court.
	web-japan.org /factsheet/flag/anthem.html (472 words)

	Modern Japan - Famous Japanese - B'z
		Formed in September 1988, the band has released almost 30 singles and 20 albums, all of which have gone straight to the No.1 position in the Oricon charts, a remarkable feat.
		B'z are also easily the best selling band in Japan in terms of both singles and albums.
		A wider western audience had a chance to sample the band's music at the 2001 World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka, when the lively single Gold was the the theme song and played almost non-stop.
	www.japan-zone.com /modern/bz.shtml (521 words)

	Amazon.com: Dahlia: Music: X (Japan) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Many fans of the band didn't like the direction the music that X (or rather Yoshiki, because he was the one who managed the band and firmly created and decided what the music would become) had taken.
		Japan has always been rather tolerable to costume and role playing as a part of their culture history, where male actors have dressed as females in different plays (kabuki).
		Many members of the band have also wrote their own journals or books about this band and what it meant to them, it's quite nice to read their personal words and opinions of how things were so check it out if you're interested.
	www.amazon.com /Dahlia-X-Japan/dp/B000059O1I (8992 words)

	Symposium \| Concerts & Events \| Anjo Gakuen High School Wind Orchestra
		Besides their tour activities, in the last ten years the band has consistently earned appearances at the national finals of the All Japan Band Competition [for concert bands], the All Japan Marching Festival, and the All Japan Ensemble Contest.
		Band members strive to be involved in activities loved by their community.
		Yoshimi received the Japan Band Directors Association "Superior Director Award" in 1998 and was honored for his devoted service at the 40th Anniversary meeting of the Chubu District Japan Band Association in 1997.
	www.bands.org /public/events/symposium/concerts_anjo.asp (451 words)

	The Locust - Music Downloads - Online
		Critics and underground hardcore fans alike have argued for and against the band, citing in their debates the destructive tendencies of the Locust's intensely loyal fan base, insane stage antics, seemingly nonsensical lyrics, and questionable taste in merchandise.
		With the only certainty being a revolving cast, the Locust set out on tours of the U.S. and Europe before the lineup was solidified, and work on their debut full-length LP began.
		The band then received a significant credibility boost when it signed a worldwide contract with Anti, the respected Epitaph affiliate that hosted such artists as Tom Waits, Merle Haggard, and Nick Cave.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/438/The-Locust/1038964.html (500 words)

	Japan - nationalanthems.info
		The band members requested Artillery Captain Oyama Iwao, who was well versed in Japanese and Chinese history and literature, to select appropriate words for such an anthem.
		In 1876, Osamu Yusuke, the director of the Naval Band, submitted to the Navy Ministry a proposal for changing the music, and on the basis of his proposal it was decided that the new melody should reflect the style used in musical chants performed at the imperial court.
		They were Naval Band director Nakamura Yusuke; Army Band director Yotsumoto Yoshitoyo; the court director of gagaku (Japanese court music) performances, Hayashi Hiromori; and a German instructor under contract with the navy, Franz Eckert.
	david.national-anthems.net /jp.htm (450 words)

	Modern Japan - Famous Japanese - SMAP
		Thanks largely to their popularity, Johnny's Jimusho has become easily the most successful agency in Japan, with earnings of almost 3 billion yen in 1995.
		Ironically there was talk of SMAP breaking away from Johnny's until Inagaki Goro got himself arrested for turning a simple parking violation into an attempted hit and run in August 2001.
		From nude magazine photo shoots to a variety of cross-dressing TV roles - witness the huge popularity of Shingo Mama and her 'O-ha Rock' - he seems to be fighting any attempts to categorize him while at the same time sending a lot of ambiguous signals about his sexual orientation.
	www.japan-zone.com /modern/smap.shtml (949 words)

	Vodka Collins
		They were much like their British counterpart band T Rex, and Marc Bolan and his wife June loved Vodka Collins' "Tokyo New York" album, and they marvelled at the glam rock style being done in the Japanese language.
		Monsieur was already an established superstar in Japan with his band The Spiders, and he was the creative musical force in that band.
		The band Vodka Collins are now legends in the domestic Japanese market, and only recently have their records been available to an international audience, mainly as a result of the internet.
	www.geocities.com /vodka_collins2004 (1340 words)

	VirtualJapan.com - Japanese info, pictures, news, forums, and a wiki.
		The band, originally founded in 1997 after the band La:Sadies, of which all but one of the bands members were a part of, disbanded.
		The group was formed in 1988 by Takuro, the bands leader and guitarist, and Teru, then drummer who soon became the lead vocalist, while they were still in high school at their hometown of Hakodate, on the northern island of Hokkaido.
		Cigaretteman was a Japanese punk band formed in 1993 and active until at least 2000.
	www.virtualjapan.com (815 words)

	Japan (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Japan was a British rock group, formed in 1974.
		The band debuted on record with 1978's Adolescent Sex and subsequently Obscure Alternatives, which both sold well in Japan and the Netherlands (where the single "Adolescent Sex" was a Top 30 hit), they also gained some popularity in Canada, but nowhere else.
		A reunion of the band members in 1991 (under the name Rain Tree Crow) was short lived, producing only one album, with the band once again dissolving following frictions between Sylvian and the rest of the band.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Japan_(band) (864 words)

	Naval Academy Band
		His Navy music assignments took him twice to Japan with the Commander, Naval Force Japan Band in Yokosuka, and to the Armed Forces School of Music in Norfolk, Virginia, where he served as piano and arranging instructor, rehearsal conductor and staff arranger.
		In 1970 LCDR Fluck was appointed a warrant officer and assigned as director of the Naval Air Station Band in Pensacola, Florida.
		LCDR Fluck was assigned as Assistant Director of the Naval Academy band in July 1987 and became director of the band in August 1988.
	www.usna.edu /USNABand/biographies/FluckBio.htm (384 words)

	www.myspace.com/xxjapan
		X Japan's repertoire should be enough to bury anyone's prejudices against "heavy metal" bands a hundred feet underground.
		That particular style is nicely represented in their 1993 single: Art of Life, which is a whopping twenty-nine-minute (the live version going over thirty-four minutes) roller-coaster ride of emotions endlessly fluctuating from heavy to melancholic but flowing smoothly none the less.
		In 1997, X Japan fans were shocked to hear the band was splitting.
	www.myspace.com /xxjapan (813 words)

	Japan Reference - Entertainment : X-Japan
		X Japan (known simply as 'X' in Japan) were the founders of the eye-catching Visual-Kei ("visual style") rock movement.
		The band was formed in 1976 by 12-year-olds Yoshiki (drums) and Toshi (vocals).
		Typically for a Japanese rock band, X Japan's music was very diverse - ranging from abrasive speed metal to romantic piano ballads.
	www.jref.com /entertainment/x-japan.shtml (182 words)

	Asia & Pacific Band Directors Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 1967, the Japan Band Directors’ Association (JBA) was formed in the hope of becoming a vehicle for international music exchange.
		This endeavour resulted in the formation of band directors associations in Asian countries, and this also led to the formation of the Asian Band Directors’ Association in 1978.
		In the coming years, the APBDA will continue to act its active role in promoting and activating the development of band activities in the Asia Pacific region, it is hope that band association of some non-APBDA countries will be set-up and become member of the APBDA family in the very near future.
	www.ied.edu.hk /ets/apbda.htm (401 words)

	BYO Records - Punk Since 1982 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Last Target plays their first USA tour--the first half of which they play with Minneapolis' A Street Punk Band and A-Bomb Nation (ex Code 13), the later half of the tour is played with Philidelphia's The Boils.
		At this point the band feels that they are capable and have matured as a band, but all of the members except Ryoko decide to leave the band for other projects -Joe joins One For All, Yuki joins The Vickers- and the band's activities are suspended.
		Last Target members' bands The Vickers and One For All and the club was packed with the fans who were waiting for the day of Last Target came back to the scene.
	www.byorecords.com /bandpage.php?band=lasttarget (666 words)

	SEAGULL SCREAMING KISS HER KISS HER
		The band were quite surprised to find I had a copy of it, as it apparently sold out almost immediately.
		He (Yasunobu Arakawa) used to be the manager of our band, but he was also a big fan of ours, and I knew he was a super drummer, and he knew every song I made, so I just asked him to be in the band.
		I was like, I couldn’t stop myself, ya know, being in a band again, and I called up Nao, ‘cause I remembered her face, and she was like energetic, and eager to be in a band, and she mentioned she used to play a guitar, but she never played bass before.
	www.rockofjapan.com /seagullscreamingkissherkh.html (4657 words)

	L'Arc~en~Ciel Press Confrence at Otakon 2004. DVD Vision Japan
		Our musical activities will always be based in Japan but if we could come to America and have a good time, I'm up for that.
		I basically packed the night before I left Japan, got on a plane and before I knew it, I was in Baltimore.
		In Japan, because the restrictions were so severe, people in the first row are 6 meters away and they could never come up or show would get stopped.
	www.dvdvisionjapan.com /larcinterview.html (1564 words)

	japan-guide.com forum - Questions - US teen band in Japan?
		Doing some research I found that there are many independent bands, teen and homemade bands and rock is very popular in Japan.
		I was wondering how we, a gaijin band, will be viewed by the society.
		I think it will be cool to play with other teen bands in a foreign country.
	www.japan-guide.com /forum/quereadisplay.html?0+5485 (406 words)

	Japan Band Music Forum - A Bravenet.com Forum
		If you have a question about Japan band music, we answer that.
		If it is playable by an average high school band (grade 3-4 music level) I may want to get some arreangments.
		Some of my band students have been asking if there are band arrangments of any of the music that is used in video games.
	pub36.bravenet.com /forum/3024521138/fetch/55786 (244 words)

	Army Shows Off New X-Band Radar in Japan
		Local media and Japanese government officials were invited to Misawa Air Base on Tuesday to see, for the first time, the Forward-Based X-Band radar, a new high-tech surveillance system designed to detect and track ballistic missiles and the first of its kind employed, according to U.S. military officials.
		U.S. and Japanese government officials agreed in 2005 to place the $2 billion radar in Japan as part of sweeping changes called for in a U.S.-Japan military realignment plan finalized this spring.
		The missile defense idea gained momentum in Japan and the United States in 1998 after North Korea launched a Taepodong missile over Japan.
	www.military.com /features/0,15240,100201,00.html?ESRC=armynews.RSS (640 words)

	Lotus Band in Japan!
		Generationally speaking, all of the band's members are fourth-generation Japanese-Americans except for Amy, who is second-generation, and myself, a third-generation Japanese-American.
		While there may be several Buddhist temple-sponsored taiko drum bands here, Lotus is the only temple band that performs what we might term "contemporary Buddhistic music," popular music that young people in America listen to.
		This area is known as one of the prime tourist and vacation spots in Japan due to its natural beauty.
	www.livingdharma.org /Kids/LotusBand-Japan03.html (1751 words)

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