Yokohama Stadium is a baseball stadium in Naka-ku, Yokohama, Japan. It opened in 1978 and has a capacity of 34,046 people.
Flower Travellin' Band was a Japanese rock band that was formed in 1967. They were connected to Japan's counterculture movement and noted for their mixture of early heavy metal with psychedelic and progressive rock. They received wide acclaim from critics but failed to achieve commercial success and separated in 1973 to pursue individual careers. The band reunited in late 2007, but permanently disbanded after the 2011 death of vocalist Joe Yamanaka.
Go!Go!7188, also known simply as Go!Go!, was a Japanese rock band with influences spanning from surf rock to punk rock to J-pop.
Creation is a Japanese rock band led by guitarist/singer Kazuo Takeda. Formed as Blues Creation in Tokyo in January 1969, they were the country's first blues band before adopting a more blues rock sound in 1971. That year, they simultaneously released the albums Demon & Eleven Children and Carmen Maki/Blues Creation, the latter being a collaboration with female vocalist Carmen Maki. Both albums have been credited with pioneering Japanese rock. After briefly disbanding, the band returned as simply Creation in 1972. They continued to tour, including becoming the first Japanese band to tour the United States and the first Japanese rock band to play the Nippon Budokan, and produce albums until disbanding in 1984. Since 2005, Takeda periodically returns to Japan and performs with musicians as Creation.
Hidekazu Uchida, known professionally as Yūya Uchida, is a Japanese actor and voice actor who has been managed by the Tokyo Actor's Consumer's Cooperative Society since 2021. He is a former member of the Haiyuza Theatre Company. He is best known for voicing Sam Winchester in Supernatural and its anime adaptation, Franken Stein in Soul Eater, Rinji and Tenji in Naruto: Shippuden, and Agnus in Devil May Cry 4. He has also performed dubbing roles for James McAvoy for X-Men film series, Cillian Murphy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Matt Damon, Ryan Gosling, Feng Shaofeng, Daniel Brühl, Ha Jung-woo, Shin Ha-kyun, Ji Sung, and many more.
Outrage is a Japanese thrash metal band, formed in Nagoya in 1982. They made their debut in 1987 with a lineup of Yosuke Abe on guitar, Yoshihiro Yasui on bass, Shinya Tange on drums and Naoki Hashimoto on vocals. Hashimoto left the band in 1999, but the group continued as a three piece and he returned in 2007. With a career spanning over four decades, Outrage are one of few Japanese metal bands to have never disbanded or paused activities.
Atsuto Uchida is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a right-back.
Satori is the second album by Japanese rock band Flower Travellin' Band, and their first of original material. It was released in Japan by Atlantic Records in 1971 and in the US and Canada by GRT Records.
Kirikyogen is a 1970 album by Japanese musician Kuni Kawachi, credited to "Kuni Kawachi & His Friends", though it is usually credited to "Kuni Kawachi & Flower Travellin' Band" on bootlegs. The album showcases Kuni Kawachi's progressive rock influences, as well as the growing heavy metal sound that the Flower Travellin' Band were honing.
Challenge! is the debut studio album by Japanese rock band Flower Travellin' Band, then called Yuya Uchida & The Flowers, released in 1969. It features mainly cover songs, and was a means for Yuya Uchida to explore the emerging psychedelic rock movement outside his own career, and to introduce the work of upcoming Western bands such as Cream, Big Brother and the Holding Company, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Jefferson Airplane to a Japanese audience. It was named number 34 on Bounce's 2009 list of 54 Standard Japanese Rock Albums.
Anywhere is a 1970 album by Japanese rock band Flower Travellin' Band. It was their first release under the Flower Travellin' Band name and the first to feature the classic line-up of Joe Yamanaka, Hideki Ishima, Jun Kozuki and Joji Wada.
Made in Japan is the third album by Japanese rock band Flower Travellin' Band, released in 1972.
Make Up is the fourth album by Japanese rock band Flower Travellin' Band, released in February 1973. It is a double album, featuring both live and studio recordings.
Akira Yamanaka, better known as Joe Yamanaka (ジョー山中), was a Japanese singer and actor. He is known for both his work with Flower Travellin' Band and as a solo musician; singing at a vocal range of three octaves. As an actor, he appeared in many television shows and movies, such as Blackmail Is My Life (1968), Proof of the Man (1977), Zatoichi (1989) and Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002).
Hideki Ishima is a Japanese musician, known primarily for his work with Flower Travellin' Band and for creating the sitarla instrument. A guitarist and sitar player for nearly forty years, he now exclusively plays the sitarla, an instrument he invented in 2000 that combines aspects of a sitar with an electric guitar. Guitarists Kazuo Takeda, Akira Takasaki, Rolly, and Mikael Åkerfeldt have cited him as an influence.
Maaya Uchida is a Japanese voice actress and singer who works for I'm Enterprise. She won the Best Rookie Actress Award at the 8th Seiyu Awards. She is best known for her roles such as Rikka Takanashi in Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions, Irina Shido in High School DxD, Hiyori Iki in Noragami, and Catarina Claes in My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!.
Japanese metal is heavy metal music from Japan. The country's first metal bands formed in the mid-to-late 1970s. The number of acts increased significantly in the next decade, but only a few saw their material released internationally, including Europe and North America with their pre-established metal bases. Domestic metal saw its commercial peak in Japan in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with the top acts selling millions of records. Many metal bands from the visual kei scene toured and gained recognition in the West in the 2000s. The 2010s saw a boom of all-female metal bands form and gain mainstream attention.
Yuma Uchida is a Japanese voice actor and singer who works for Intention. He is best known for his roles as Jun Sazanami in Ensemble Stars!!, Yuuma Kousaka in Gundam Build Fighters Try, Nagisa Kiryū in Classroom Crisis, Megumi Fushiguro in Jujutsu Kaisen, Eishirō Yabuki in The Asterisk War, Hayate Immelmann in Macross Delta, Ein Dalton in Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, Reo Mikage in Blue Lock, Iori Kitahara in Grand Blue, Kyo Sohma in Fruits Basket, and Ash Lynx in Banana Fish. He is currently voicing Kawaki Uzumaki in Boruto. He received the 11th Seiyu Awards for Best Male Newcomer with Setsuo Itō and Yusuke Kobayashi. In 2019, he won Best Male Lead Actor in the 13th Seiyu Awards. He made his singing debut in May 2018 under the King Records label. His older sister is voice actress Maaya Uchida.
Japanese rock, sometimes abbreviated to J-rock, is rock music from Japan. Influenced by American and British rock of the 1960s, the first rock bands in Japan performed what is called group sounds, with lyrics almost exclusively in English. Folk rock band Happy End in the early 1970s are credited as the first to sing rock music in the Japanese language. Punk rock bands Boøwy and The Blue Hearts and hard rock/heavy metal groups X Japan and B'z led Japanese rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s by achieving major mainstream success.
Ultraman R/B The Movie is a 2019 Japanese superhero kaiju film, serving as the sequel and film adaptation of the 2018 Ultra Series television series Ultraman R/B. It was released in Japan on March 8, 2019.
