They even hire professional singers to tighten up the performance. Japanese bosses also spend a lot of time on vocal training to impress customers and business partners. The Japanese will sing the same song long and hard, perfecting the performance so as not to embarrass themselves in front of colleagues and the boss. For many, this is a good way to relieve stress after work, but often a single trip to a club is a rehearsal before an upcoming corporate event. The Japanese are probably the only ones who go to karaoke alone. Now Japan is a recognized karaoke-culture center with over 135,000 karaoke clubs, some of which reach 7-8 floors in height. From Japan, karaoke spread first across Asia and then across the rest of the world. The first home karaoke TV console, the first karaoke taxi, the first karaoke box is a prototype of modern VIP rooms in karaoke clubs. Until the late 1980s, all major karaoke inventions appeared in Japan for the first time. This parody award is usually awarded for unusual but useful inventions. The inventor of karaoke in 2004 was even awarded the Ignobel (“Shnobel”) Peace Prize «for the creation of a fundamentally new way to learn to tolerate each other». Time magazine named Inoue as one of the most influential Asians of the 20th century. Daisuke Inoue, who worked as a musician in the so-called “singing cafés” where people came to drink and sing to the accompaniment of live music, came up with the idea of making a machine in which visitors could independently throw money and sing while the musicians rested.
All this and other facts about karaoke in Asia are in our article. In karaoke bars people make deals, make dates, relieve stress, and in some places, are willing to grab knives if you decide to sing Sinatra. Karaoke has long been a world phenomenon and has conquered virtually all the countries of the world, but perhaps nowhere it has become as widespread as at home – in Asia.