{"id":15816,"date":"2011-11-04T20:00:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-04T11:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=15816"},"modified":"2011-11-04T20:00:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-04T11:00:10","slug":"one-mans-karaoke-box-hitori-karaoke-appears-in-tokyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/one-mans-karaoke-box-hitori-karaoke-appears-in-tokyo\/","title":{"rendered":"One Man&#8217;s Karaoke Box &#8220;Hitori Karaoke&#8221; Appears In Tokyo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.karaokemanekineko.jp\/index.html\">Koshidaka<\/a>, a company runs 317 karaoke shops all around Japan (and one oversea, in Korea), foretold that it would open a new category business &#8220;Hitori Karaoka&#8221;(one man&#8217;s karaoka) at Kanda, Tokyo around the end of this month, November 2011.<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15821\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15821\" style=\"width: 173px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/one-man-karaoke.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/one-man-karaoke.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"one-man-karaoke\" width=\"173\" height=\"123\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15821\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15821\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One-man&#039;s Karaoke, corridor<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nDifferent from many other countries where Karaoke means singing in a bar in front of other people whom you do not know, mainstream Karaoke experience in Japan is to rent a so-called &#8220;box&#8221; and let your friends hear your singing. (I see resemblance with the difference between Facebook and Mixi there)<br \/>\nAnd the term &#8220;Hitori Karaoke&#8221; has been around there by people who are too shy to sing for others (Google search gives back <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.co.jp\/#sclient=psy-ab&#038;hl=ja&#038;source=hp&#038;q=%22%E4%B8%80%E4%BA%BA%E3%82%AB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B1%22&#038;pbx=1&#038;oq=%22%E4%B8%80%E4%BA%BA%E3%82%AB%E3%83%A9%E3%82%AA%E3%82%B1%22&#038;aq=f&#038;aqi=g4&#038;aql=1&#038;gs_sm=e&#038;gs_upl=4343l5425l2l5619l4l4l0l0l0l0l218l763l0.2.2l4l0&#038;bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&#038;fp=6f6c86ae6c5fd5c5&#038;biw=1094&#038;bih=729\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3 million results<\/a> [J]), but still want to sing by herself\/himself. The phrase sometimes had a masochistic tone, and visiting Karaoke box and asked to rent a room by oneself might be more humiliating than singing to audience.<br \/>\nSo this new shop, having all 24 rooms are for single person, would be a cure for those stoic tao of Karaoke seekers.<br \/>\nAccording to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sankeibiz.jp\/business\/news\/111025\/bsl1110250501001-n1.htm\">SankeiBiz<\/a> [J], those single rooms are so small then they may cause acoustic howling. The shop will rent a head-phone for free for the case.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nicovideo.jp\/watch\/nw140240\">Nico Nico News<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/pdf.irpocket.com\/C2157\/oWM7\/EHeO\/dBRM.pdf\">release<\/a> [J]<br \/>\n[Update 2011-11-26] The Hitori Karaoke shop was opened to media. Some media <a href=\"http:\/\/news.mynavi.jp\/news\/2011\/11\/22\/035\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report with photos<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Koshidaka, a company runs 317 karaoke shops all around Japan (and one oversea, in Korea), foretold that it would open a new category business &#8220;Hitori Karaoka&#8221;(one man&#8217;s karaoka) at Kanda, Tokyo around the end of this month, November 2011. Different from many other countries where Karaoke means singing in a bar in front of other&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/one-mans-karaoke-box-hitori-karaoke-appears-in-tokyo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One Man&#8217;s Karaoke Box &#8220;Hitori Karaoke&#8221; Appears In Tokyo<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,36],"tags":[1917,1930,2020,3357,3449,3718],"class_list":["post-15816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-japan","category-trend","tag-kanda","tag-karaoke","tag-koshidaka","tag-singing","tag-solo-play","tag-tokyo","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}