while 131,500 bars are equipped with karaoke machines — a market worth a combined 387.9 billion yen ($2.6 billion) in 2022, according to estimates from the All-Japan Karaoke Industrialist ...

the origins of the karaoke machine date back to the Land of the Rising Sun where the first prototype was created by Shigeichi Negishi in 1967, but it was really in snack bars and with more ...