JAPAN
Yokohama Theme Park To Be Developed On Former U.S. Army Base
A brand new theme park is being developed on a former U.S. army base within the metropolis of Yokohama, Japan.
Town’s authorities has chosen Mitsubishi Property to develop the mission, in line with Theme Park Insider, with hopes of getting it open by 2031.
The theme park, which is known as Kamiseya Park, will cowl 127 acres and is predicted to draw 15 million guests a yr, which might make it one of many 10 most visited theme parks on the planet.
According to the development of the park, the event plan features a new subway station, a separate municipal park and a “Inexperienced x Expo 2027” venue to exhibit vanguard environmental improvements. Yokohama is about to be the location for the Worldwide Horticultural Expo in 2027.
Mitsubishi Property, considered one of Japan’s largest builders, will probably require help so as to compete with the likes of Disney and Common, whose theme parks in Tokyo and Osaka, respectively, are among the many hottest on the planet.
Awards Present Beneath Consideration
Japan’s Cultural Affairs Company is considering beginning a music awards present to honor Asian artists, the Yomiuri Shimbun experiences.
In an interview with the newspaper, the company’s commissioner, Shunichi Tokura, stated it could be customary after the Grammy Awards and can be headquartered within the metropolis of Kyoto, the place the company just lately relocated its headquarters.
The aim is to assist Japanese music artists achieve traction within the international market.
The awards can be a part of the company’s push to develop music and video that might be exported overseas.
Presently, Korean pop has been essentially the most profitable nationwide music style from Asia to turn into recognized worldwide.
“Japan has a comparatively giant home market,” stated Tokura, who can be a well-known composer. “So [success in] the home market has been thought of adequate. South Korea has extra power to go abroad.
“With the intention to promote J-pop abroad, we want to maintain a music awards ceremony in Kyoto that may appeal to worldwide consideration.”
Ok-pop companies have already capitalized on this concept by holding awards ceremonies for Ok-pop music in different nations in Asia, successfully spreading the style’s reputation.
The MAMA Awards, as an example, that are broadcast by a distinguished South Korean TV channel, will happen in Tokyo this yr.
Treasure Mapping Drama
Ten-piece Ok-pop boy band Treasure used a video with a map of japanese Asia as an example the cities the tour would go to in early 2024 throughout an Oct. 1 fan assembly at Ariake Area in Tokyo to advertise their upcoming Japan tour.
The map, which appeared on a display onstage, outlined South Korea, Japan and China, together with the assorted islands which can be thought of territories of every nation.
Korean followers observed one thing was amiss, nonetheless: there was no illustration of Dokdo, a gaggle of tiny islands that’s situated between South Korea and Japan.
An issue instantly erupted on-line, in line with the Korea Occasions.
Each Japan and South Korea declare Dokdo, which is known as Takeshima by the Japanese, as their very own.
The dispute over these claims has been a severe impediment to diplomatic relations between the 2 nations, courting again to the twelfth century. South Korea has safety personnel, two lighthouses and different infrastructure on the islets, that are recognized in English because the Liancourt Rocks.
The islets could have been omitted from the map in order to not invite issues with the Japan tour, which guarantees to be very profitable for Treasure’s administration firm, YG Leisure.
In actual fact, the group’s followers blame YG for the exclusion and a few have talked about comparable issues previously with a distinct Ok-pop administration firm.
In 2020, a map that appeared on the web site of the Ok-pop group SuperM labeled the physique of water between Korea and Japan because the Sea of Japan slightly than the East Sea, which is what it’s known as in Korea.
SuperM’s company, SM Leisure, “didn’t problem a press release in response to the [resulting] controversy,” reported Ok-pop fansite Pinkville.
Finally, nonetheless, the corporate took the map down.
MALAYSIA
No ‘Eras’ On Film Screens
Taylor Swift’s “The Eras Tour” live performance movie, which is slated to open Oct. 13 in additional than 100 nations worldwide, won’t be screened in Malaysia, in line with Advertising and marketing Interactive.
Sources from two nationwide movie show chains instructed the web site that native distributors haven’t picked up the film, which signifies that Taylor Swift followers in Malaysia should journey to Singapore or Indonesia to see the movie.
Swift has already disenchanted her Malaysian followers by not performing within the nation throughout her upcoming Asian tour, opting as a substitute to stage six concert events in Singapore for her Southeast Asia followers.
SINGAPORE
Extra Coldplay Tix Launched
Further tickets had been made obtainable on Oct. 3 at 10 a.m. for all six Coldplay reveals on the Nationwide Stadium in Singapore in January.
Based on Dwell Nation Singapore, all of the tickets had been offered out by 11:20 a.m. Apparently, a block of tickets had been put aside when tickets first went on sale in June.
These seats offered out in a short time, so this late gambit gave some disenchanted followers a second likelihood.
Coldplay is the primary act to ever current, a lot much less promote out, six concert events on the Nationwide Stadium, a feat that Taylor Swift matched shortly afterward.
The group nonetheless holds the report for many tickets offered in a single day in Singapore with 200,000.
