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Karaoke is an amusement place!? What actually is Karaoke born in Japan?

Karaoke is indispensable as an entertainment center in Japan.
Since karaoke is the place where people can gather and make merry, it is also the place where people relieve their stress.
In recent years, karaoke gets popular overseas as well. Many foreign people visit karaoke when they are traveling Japan.
We’d like to introduce what karaoke is in Japan.

Karaoke was born in Japan in the 1970s.
The origin of karaoke is combined words of “orchestra” with “kara”(space in Japanese).
In other words, it means an orchestra space without songs, so it isn’t for live performance.

The reason why karaoke gets popular in Japan is that you can sing a song without worrying about surroundings in a priv・・・