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It Was 60 Years Ago Today — The Beatles Conquered Japan
Exactly sixty years ago today, four lads from Liverpool walked onto a stage and played their final two shows of the Japan tour at the Nippon Budokan. They only played for half an hour. Then they left Japan the next day.
Japan has never quite recovered since, and the evidence is in every classroom of every Japanese school.
The Beatles visited Japan only once. They were the first music act ever to play the Budokan. Historians — actual historians — listed it as the single most significant event of 1966 in Japan. Above everything else that happened that year. Everything.
The musicians, comedians…
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