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April 12, 2020 02:31 PM
2019 Japan Musical Instruments Export and Import
Export growth of pianos and acoustic guitars
The statistics compiled by The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry show that total shipment of acoustic pianos surpassed 40,000 units for the first time in the last 5 years. It gained 4% growth in value over the previous year.
Healthy performance of piano industry last year is verified by the statistics of Shizuoka Musical Instruments Manufacturers’ Association with increases of grand and upright pianos in production and export as well. While dome...
April 08, 2020 09:02 PM
Industry Manufacturers and Distributors Meet To Know New Japan-U.S. Trade Agreement Import Tax
Tokyo Musical Instruments Association held a meeting on February 25 to acquire latest information on new import tax of Japan-U.S. Trade Agreement at a meeting room of Gakki Kaikan (Japan’s music products industry members headquarters), Tokyo. A total of 36 members took part from Tokyo Musical Instruments Manufacturers’ Association and Eastern Japan Musical Instruments Distributors Association.
Ms. Kazuyo Aoki, an expert of Economic Partnership Division, The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industr...
April 07, 2020 05:15 PM
Yamaha and Kawai Support Children Staying Home Because of the Epidemic
Yamaha now offers Smart Education System, a digital music teaching material of soprano recorder lesson for elementary school children, and alto recorder lesson for junior high school students free of charge in support of children staying home due to temporary shut-down of public schools. (photo right top)
They are designed to support learning to play soprano and alto recorders with rich instruction videos combined with effective practice function.
Children and students can access to Yamaha websi...
April 07, 2020 05:11 PM
Yamano Music Leases 3 Sales Floors to KDDI
Yamano Music recently announced that the company had reached an agreement with KDDI to lease basement, first and second floors of its main store in Ginza Tokyo.
The 7-story building had mainly CDs on the 1st floor, but the company moved them to upper floors in the summer of 2019 as CD market has been stagnant for long. KDDI plans to open Ginza 456 concept store this summer using the 3 floors.
Yamano Music expects the lease will contribute to increase not only store traffic but also generate syne...
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