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Article: Japan Music Trades celebrates 40th year; leading trade paper mirrors growth of Japanese music industry. (Industry Forefront).
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- Music Trades
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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FORTY YEARS AGO Japan and the Japanese music industry were just beginning to emerge as major forces in the world. Tokyo had just hosted the Olympic games, the Bullet train had begun service between Tokyo and Osaka, and Japanese piano production had tripled in the previous five years. Against this backdrop, Rikuro Hiyama concluded that the Japanese music industry was in need of a viable trade paper. In January 1963 he published the first edition of Japan Music Trades.
Hiyama was in a unique position to launch a magazine. As manager of the Import Division of Yamaha Corporation, he had traveled the world purchasing music products for distribution in the Japanese ...