Hoshino Gen to hold 2019 world tour

[KarenPang]

[Gen Hoshino POP VIRUS World Tour]

Saturday, November 23 - National Exhibition & Convention Center Hong Arena (Shanghai, China)

Monday, November 25 - Sony Hall (New York, USA)
Special Guest - Mark Ronson

Monday, December 9 - Yokohama Arena (Kanagawa)
Performers - Hoshino Gen & Mark Ronson

Tuesday, December 10 - Yokohama Arena (Kanagawa)
Performers - Hoshino Gen & Mark Ronson

Saturday, December 14 - Taipei Legacy MAX (Taiwan)

https://www.tokyohive.com/article/20...weibo-accounts
https://natalie.mu/music/news/345570

[Corvina]

Too bad world bascially means Asia here again...
I only like some of his songs, but he's a nice guy overall, so I'd have loved to see him live.

[KarenPang]

Japanese artistes are still very confined if not content to tour within Japan

There must be certain pull factors for them perform outside of Japan & most of the time whenever that happens they always seem genuinely surprised to find out that people know who they're & also their music

This year is Mr. Children's 30th anniversary and yet they took them so long to perform outside of Japan at the beginning of 2019 for the 1st time

While 3 years ago it was Yuzu's 1st time to perform outside of Japan in line with their 20th anniversary

They're not like hyde where he has the foresight/knowledge that it's important to tour outside of Japan

That's why for hyde's latest solo album ANTI , the way he promoted the album , it was very Westernised & not methods that typical Japanese artistes would utilise