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(Top) 1 Traditional festivals. ... This is an incomplete list of festivals in Japan. Traditional festivals ... Classical music festival: Songs Day: Pop festival:
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Japanese festivals are traditional festive occasions often celebrated with dance and music in Japan.In Japan, festivals are called matsuri (祭り), and the origin of the word matsuri is related to the kami (神, Shinto deities); there are theories that the word matsuri is derived from matsu (待つ) meaning "to wait (for the kami to descend)", tatematsuru (献る) meaning "to make offerings ...
Fuji Rock Festival (フジロックフェスティバル, Fuji Rokku Fesutibaru) is an annual rock festival held in Naeba Ski Resort, in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. The three-day event, organized by Smash Japan, features more than 200 Japanese and international musicians, making it the largest outdoor music event in Japan. In 2005, more than ...
Best Hits Kayosai (ベストヒット歌謡祭, Besuto Hitto Kayōsai, "Best Hit Song Festival") is an annual music show in Japan sponsored by Yomiuri TV. It is broadcast on Yomiuri TV and Nippon Television .
1970 - 1st World Popular Song Festival; 1st Japan Music Awards; 1st publication of Music Labo; Nippon Music Foundation established; 1972 - 1st Tokyo Music Festival; 1974 - 1st FNS Music Festival; 1978 - 1st broadcast of The Best Ten [8] 1979 - Number one singles include Chameleon Army, Young Man (Y.M.C.A.) and Ihojin.
Genre-specific festivals: Performances, exhibitions, and other events are presented (with a focus on groups nominated by prefectural governments) in genres such as folk, orchestral and choral music, brass-band music, drama, literature, arts, dance, traditional Japanese music and every-day culture.
The annual Tokyo Summer Festival, organized by the Arion-Edo Foundation in cooperation with Asahi Shimbun, has been thought up in 1985 by Kyoko Edo (pianist), Maki Ishii (composer) and Tashi Funayama (musicologist), who joined hands to plan a truly international music festival in Tokyo at a time when there was no such event in Japan.