City Pop

City pop, a Japanese music genre from the mid-1970s, has recently been drawing attention from around the world. Some music videos have over 50 million views on video-sharing sites, and a song ranked number one on the viral charts of a major music subscription service for more than two weeks. But why is city pop suddenly growing in popularity among music fans around the world?

he genre of city pop is not one with a clear musical definition. Generally, it refers to pop songs with a "big-city feel", which became popular in Japan in the mid-1970s and into the 1980s.

Reference: Web Japan: https://web-japan.org/trends/11_culture/pop202203_city-pop.html

Di Jepun, antara yang popular ialah S. Kiyotaka & Omega Tribe, Tatsuro Yamashita, Miki Matsubara, Yumi Matsutoya dan Mariya Takeuchi. Di Malaysia, antara artis yang membawa lagu-lagu genre seumpama ini ialah Azman Abu Hassan, Sheila Majid, Fairuz Hussein dan Dato' Shake. 

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Free Malaysia Today: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/leisure/entertainment/2022/02/22/the-resurgence-of-city-pop-the-soundtrack-to-japans-boom-years/

A Different Kind of Bookshop

 

Sumber: The Star 

Di Jepun, penerbit atau penulis buku boleh menyewa rak buku di kedai buku bagi mempamer dan menjual buku sendiri.

The Star 5 Nov 2024, ms. 6 (Lifestyle)

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Tsutaya Bookstore di Malaysia

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Kedai buku terbesar dari Jepun akan membuka cawangannya di Asia Tenggara iaitu di Pavilion Bukit Jalil. Kedai ini dijangka akan bermula operasinya pada April 2022. ia juga dikenali sebagai salah satu kedai buku tercantik di dunia.

Boleh rujuk laman ini: https://thesmartlocal.com/malaysia/tsutaya-books-malaysia/

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Japanese company to digitise rare Vatican library manuscripts

Ancient manuscripts in the Vatican library penned from East Asia to the Pre-Colombian Americas will be digitised by a Japanese company as part of a global project to make the collection available for free viewing by the public.

Japan's NTT Data will digitise 3,000 historical works and put them online over a four-year period in an initiative costing 18 million euros (RM82.15 million), the company said at a press conference in the Vatican on Thursday.

"The manuscripts to be digitised go from the Pre-Colombian American period to the Chinese and Japanese East Asia, passing through all the languages and cultures which have animated Europe," the Vatican's librarian and archivist Jean-Louis Brugues said. The library began digitising its books a couple of years ago and the deal with NTT Data will bring the total of manuscripts converted to 15,000 by 2018.

NTT Data's head Toshio Iwamoto said the company was eager to participate "in an operation which will lead to the digitisation and preservation of some 80,000 books and 41 million pages which could be considered as global heritage, written between the second and 20th centuries".

The company is active in over 40 countries and is experienced in digitising rare manuscripts. Brugues underlined the Holy See's desire "to make the immense treasure entrusted to it available, by offering free consultation on the Internet". 

Vatican Library: http://www.vaticanlibrary.va

Source: www.themalaysianisider.com