{"id":43198,"date":"2018-05-24T11:53:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T15:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=43198"},"modified":"2019-02-07T11:58:59","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T15:58:59","slug":"justins-japan-the-world-belongs-to-hatsune-miku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/24\/justins-japan-the-world-belongs-to-hatsune-miku\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin’s Japan: The World Belongs to Hatsune Miku"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>JQ\u00a0<\/em>magazine<\/em><\/a><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>editor<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Justin Tedaldi<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>(<\/em><\/strong>CIR<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Kobe-shi<\/a>, 2001-02) <\/em><\/strong>for<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Shukan NY Seikatsu<\/a>. <\/em><\/strong>Justin<\/em><\/strong> has<\/em><\/strong> written<\/em><\/strong> about<\/em><\/strong> Japanese<\/em><\/strong> arts<\/em><\/strong> and<\/em><\/strong> entertainment<\/em><\/strong> for<\/em><\/strong> JETAA<\/em><\/strong> since<\/em><\/strong> 2005. <\/em><\/strong>For<\/em><\/strong> more<\/em><\/strong> of<\/em><\/strong> his<\/em><\/strong> articles<\/em><\/strong>,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>click here<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pop idols are everywhere in Japan, but most of them remain there. One particular idol breaks that tradition, with a notable exception: she\u2019s not human.<\/p>\n

Hatsune Miku, whose name means \u201cfirst sound of the future,\u201d is a Vocaloid (machine-made vocals) digital female avatar and creation of Crypton Future Media who currently has over 100,000 unique songs in her voice, which are synthesized tracks reminiscent of Auto-Tune. In Japan, Miku is massively popular and has appeared in numerous hit video games, music videos and ad campaigns, and her appearances with major artists like Lady Gaga and Pharrell Williams has boosted her international appeal.<\/p>\n

Miku returns to the U.S. this summer for Miku Expo 2018, her third American tour. Miku Expo consists of live concerts that feature a range of hits from across her\u00a0career as well as utilizing the latest holographic projection and voice synthesizing technology to create the ultimate Hatsune Miku\u00a0experience\u2014green onion-colored glowsticks included. For this year\u2019s edition, fans were invited to sample a 39-day trial version of Hatsune Miku V4X software in English to create a new song, with the winning entry to be performed at every show on the North American tour.<\/p>\n

True to its name, Miku Expo also presents an exhibition of Miku fan art by artists from Japan and local areas plus workshops and other events held to complement the concert.<\/p>\n

The six-date U.S. tour wraps at New York\u2019s legendary Hammerstein Ballroom on July 14th. After that comes Miku\u2019s second appearance in Mexico City, then it\u2019s off to Europe in December for Miku\u2019s first-ever live concerts in Paris, Cologne, and London. The Paris date is set to coincide with the wider \u201cJaponismes 2018\u201d project celebrating Japanese and French relations throughout the year.<\/p>\n

For more info and tickets, visit www.mikuexpo.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0JQ\u00a0magazine\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi\u00a0(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi, 2001-02) for\u00a0Shukan NY Seikatsu. Justin has written about Japanese arts and entertainment for JETAA since 2005. For more of his articles,\u00a0click here. Pop idols are everywhere in Japan, but most of them remain there. One particular idol breaks that tradition, with a notable exception: she\u2019s not human. Hatsune Miku, whose name means \u201cfirst […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,53,340,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-events","category-justins-japan","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-beK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43202,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43198\/revisions\/43202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}