http://www.mutantfrog.com/2006/07/11/history-of-enka-part-1-of-2/ Photos, Stories and articles on East Asia Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:54:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.mutantfrog.com/2006/07/11/history-of-enka-part-1-of-2/comment-page-1/#comment-57033 Karaoke brands » 世論 What Japan Thinks Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:50:38 +0000 http://www.mutantfrog.com/2006/07/11/history-of-enka-part-1-of-2/#comment-57033 [...] I’ve not been to karaoke for ages and ages; when I was dating, we went quite a few times, but love is deaf as well as blind, so since we got married my wife’s told me that my singing voice is horrible; yes, I knew already that I was tone-deaf (音痴, onchi, or tone-stupid in Japanese), but I lost all confidence after being told that! A fellow foreigner friend of mine also often frequents a karaoke room, partially for the inclusive all-you-can-drink deals and partially to satisfy his love of 演歌, enka, Japanese folk-songs (sort-of anyway; read the link). First, the survey notes that these days over 99% of all commercial karaoke machines (installed or sold, which is not made clear) are these telecommunicating ones mentioned above. There is obviously some degree of local storage, but it means that the latest releases can be pushed down the line as soon as available rather than waiting for an engineer to come and install a new disk. [...] [...] I’ve not been to karaoke for ages and ages; when I was dating, we went quite a few times, but love is deaf as well as blind, so since we got married my wife’s told me that my singing voice is horrible; yes, I knew already that I was tone-deaf (音痴, onchi, or tone-stupid in Japanese), but I lost all confidence after being told that! A fellow foreigner friend of mine also often frequents a karaoke room, partially for the inclusive all-you-can-drink deals and partially to satisfy his love of 演歌, enka, Japanese folk-songs (sort-of anyway; read the link). First, the survey notes that these days over 99% of all commercial karaoke machines (installed or sold, which is not made clear) are these telecommunicating ones mentioned above. There is obviously some degree of local storage, but it means that the latest releases can be pushed down the line as soon as available rather than waiting for an engineer to come and install a new disk. [...]

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