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The Japan Culture and Entertainment Industry Promotion Association — known throughout its home country as CEIPA — is set to make its mark in the United States on March 16 by staging matsuri '25: ...

Angry residents of Japan fed up with the country’s monetary recklessness gathered outside the Ministry of Finance in Tokyo on ...

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Name Billy Hamilton Best known for The bassist of Silverstein, collector of vinyl records. Current city Toronto, Canada.

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The music venues and fetish bars of Osaka’s Dotonbori district form a community for Japanese punks and expats.