Japan: Inside the world’s second-largest music market

With a slew of new venues under construction, Japan has a new drive to return to the glory days as a crucial tour destination for international acts

Bruno Mars at the Tokyo Dome

The western concert business tends to view itself as a global movement these days, professionalising and supercharging new markets one by one – and there is plenty of truth in that narrative. A market like Japan, however, sits stubbornly outside that vision.

The western concert business tends to view itself as a global movement these days, professionalising and supercharging new markets one by one – and there is plenty of truth in that narrative.

A market like Japan, however, sits stubbornly outside…

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