How Did Perceptions of Music Change with the Internet?

AM radio. TV. Records. FM. Tapes. Live music. These are the ways that I experienced music up to college as part of the analog generation. Once I became a member of society, CDs became popular and music was suddenly all digitized. CDs, MDs (MiniDiscs), iPods. I consumed a great deal of music, and it became portable. I also watched videos more often. It is not necessarily true that people have grown more distant from music or interact with it in a more shallow manner. Things have not changed so much. Thereafter music moved to the Internet: Napster,...

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”The Birth of Izakaya”

　 I read ”The Birth of Izakaya” by Ryoichi Ino. Edo had a great number of single men, which fully developed into the open drinking culture of modern-day Tokyo.  　Apparently there was one bar per 550 people both 200 years ago and in Tokyo today.　 　 Edo people liked bars that much.     If we compare how much Edo period people drank with how much Tokyo citizens drink, the alcohol content does not change.   Edo citizens drank that much.    Cheap sake is about ¥50 per 150mg. Pretty cheap.    Good...

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The CiP Digital Special Zone: What We Want to Achieve

The CiP (Contents Innovation Program) is a plan to construct a digital and content zone in Takeshiba, Minato Ward, Tokyo. The third interview question was, "What do we want to achieve with the CiP?” We want to make a creative space unlike any other in the world. We want to create a new Tokyo that has things that can be found nowhere else. We want a production cycle involving R&D, human resource cultivation, business startup support, and business matching. Nevertheless, it will not be a government-manufactured place of inorganic matter,...

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