Which country invented karaoke?

Karaoke originated in Japan and is one of Japan’s three major inventions in the world (instant noodles drying method, animation, and Karaoke). Due to Japanese customs, if a man goes home If you do it too early, your neighbors will look down on you and think that you work every day without even socializing. Going home too early every day will become the subject of jokes. Therefore, many Japanese men gather in bars or teahouses after get off work and chat until late. They just came home, and then they felt that they should find some new time-killing projects, so they drank in the bar while using TV microphones and other simple things that could be used to sing. Later, with the development of technology, it evolved into Today's karaoke was later introduced to Taiwan, and then from Taiwan to the mainland, giving rise to today's karaoke scene.

The original meaning of karaoke in Japanese is "unaccompanied band". In the 1960s, Mr. Daisuke Inoue was the drummer of a salon band in Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan when he was young. He invented the accompaniment track and karaoke. Portable microphone. Within three years, karaoke became very popular, and major companies copied Inoue's ideas and launched their own models. By the time someone suggested he apply for a patent, it was already too late. Inoue admitted: "I never thought about applying for a patent."

This concept existed long before Inoue invented the 8-Juke (eight-channel jukebox) in 1971, and 8-Juke was a popular , white wooden box, equipped with a microphone, amplifier and eight-track cassette player, and the dashboard is labeled in English to look "fashionable". Inoue used this prototype karaoke as a drum accompaniment for a singer-less band, and played it in the salon when he accepted song requests from customers who wanted to sing. Later, he thought that he could borrow a machine to perform the accompaniment function.