* " Alien ", a song by Japan on the album Quiet Life

On the other hand, in 1995 he toured in Japan with Kurtalan Ekspres, leading to Live In Japan ( 1996 ), his first and only live album.

Love toured Europe, Japan, and the United States promoting the album in the spring and summer of 2010, ending the tour at Seattle's Bumbershoot festival in September.

The first album to be released on CD was Billy Joel's 52nd Street, that reached the market alongside Sony's CD player CDP-101 on October 1, 1982 in Japan.

Described by Bowie as " Ziggy goes to America ", it contained songs he wrote while travelling to and across the United States during the earlier part of the Ziggy tour, which now continued to Japan to promote the new album.

Warner Music Japan stated that Enya's next album was scheduled for release in Japan in mid-November.

Alec Empire collaborated with Justin Broadrick, on the first Curse of the Golden Vampire album, and with Gabe Serbian, of the Locust, live in Japan.

He released Come By Me, his first album of big band music in eight years in 1999, and embarked on a world tour visiting the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia.

Mötley Crüe's ninth studio album, titled Saints of Los Angeles, was released in Japan on June 17, 2008 and in America on June 24, 2008.

In Japan, Osamu Kitajima's 1974 psychadelic rock album Benzaiten utilized electronic equipment such as a synthesizer and drum machine, and one of the record's contributors was Haruomi Hosono, who later started the electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra ( as " Yellow Magic Band ") in 1977.

The album comprised a series of original pieces on solo piano, including " Energy Flow " ( a major hit in Japan ) and a frenetic, four-hand arrangement of the Yellow Magic Orchestra classic " Tong Poo.

Sakamoto's latest album, Out Of Noise, was released on March 4, 2009 in Japan.

This album has been released in 2006 in multichannel DVD-Audio, and on September 14, 2011, on hybrid stereo-multichannel Super Audio CD by Warner Japan in their Warner Premium Sound series.

The album featured several distinguished guest players ; Mick Karn ( bass, saxophone ) and Rob Dean ( guitar ) of Japan, Roger Mason ( keyboards ) of Models and Roger Taylor ( drums ) of Queen.

In Japan, such examples of music inspired by a work and not intended to soundtrack an radio play or motion picture adaptation of it are known as an " image album " or " image song ," though this definition also includes such things as film score demos inspired by concept art and songs inspired by a TV series which do not feature in it.

The album received universal acclaim, with critics praising the variety of styles and the confessional lyrics, reaching No. 4 in the US and No. 1 in the UK and Japan.

Their sixth studio album, Light Grenades, debuted at No. 1 in 2006 and has received Gold certification in the U. S. Incubus released their first greatest hits album Monuments and Melodies in June 2009, accompanied by a tour of the United States, Japan and Canada.

After touring with various artists like Bobby Womack and Billy Preston, they were hired by Quincy Jones for a tour in Japan and produced their debut album Look Out For # 1, released in March 1976 (# 9 U. S .) Their Right On Time album was released in May 1977 and reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 200.

The album was also a worldwide success, reaching No. 21 in the United States while going Gold ( the third time a Wakeman record had achieved this ) in Brazil, Japan and Australia.

Her fifth album, Sisters of Avalon ( released in Japan in 1996 and everywhere else in 1997 ) failed in America – spending a single week on the Billboard album chart at No. 188.

Benny Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television ; the first attempt in the early 1970s for the obscure Swedish movie The Seduction Of Inga: the film flopped, but the ' Björn & Benny ' single " She's My Kind Of Girl " surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Top 10 hit ( the song renamed in Japan as " The Little Girl Of The Cold Wind ").

Dalida released " J ' attendrai ", which became a big hit in Canada and Japan, and Cerrone's early hit songs, " Love in C Minor ", " Give Me Love " and " Supernature " became major hits in the U. S. and Europe.

At 84 years old, Daihachi Oguchi died on June 27, 2008, after being hit by a car across from his home in Nagano, Japan.

While the group was in Osaka, Japan, a typhoon hit the city.

At this time, it was unimaginable to hit each other in karate matches in Japan.

* 2004 – A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2, 200, and leaving 85, 000 homeless or evacuated.

Since the out break of the Syrian civil war, the Syrian economy has been hit by massive economic sanctions restricting trade with the Arab League, Australia, Canada, the European Union, ( as well as the European countries of Albania, Croatia, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, and Switzerland ) Georgia, Japan, Turkey, and the United States.

* 1947 – Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kanto Region in Japan killing 1, 077.

Penhold styles are popular among players originating from East Asian regions such as China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea. Traditionally, penhold players use only one side of the racket to hit the ball during normal play, and the side which is in contact with the last three fingers is generally not used.

In the 1980s, geologists found evidence that an earthquake, powerful enough to send a tsunami all the way to Japan, hit the American Pacific Northwest in 1700.

Outside of Japan, however, it was a worldwide hit.

** Off the coast of Japan, bombers hit the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing about 800 of her crewmen and crippling the ship.

** A powerful earthquake and tsunami hit Honshū, Japan, killing some 3, 000.

In Japan, divorces were on a generally upward trend from the 1960s until 2002 when they hit a peak of 290, 000.

La boum was a hit movie, not only in France, where 4. 5 million tickets were sold, but several other European countries and Japan.

Soon after the Matrix was produced, the commercial video recording industry in Japan took a financial hit.

After the success of The Strokes and The White Stripes, The D4 and fellow New Zealand garage rock band The Datsuns became a critical and popular hit in the UK and Japan.

He continued through the time when Menudo had the number 1 hit Indianapolis and when Menudo started making it to the covers of Tiger Beat and other major teen magazines, and also when Menudo became famous in the Philippines and Japan.

Cover of the album Sylvie à Nashville In 1963, Paul Anka offered her " I'm watching you ", her first international hit ( Japan, Korea ).

Dalida collected 19 number one hit singles to her name in four languages ( French, Italian, German, and Arabic ) and has a long list of top 10, and top 20 hits in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Arabic, and accumulated myriad top selling singles and albums largely, in France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Greece, Canada, Russia, Japan, and Israel, spanning over forty years.

The song became a big hit and was the number one single in France and Japan.

The song became a hit among enka-shi, and was one of the first major best-selling records in Japan.