X JAPAN Announced Three Additional Concerts for Japan Tour
Japanese rock band X JAPAN announced on October 8 to perform three additional concerts in their first Japan tour in 20 years.
Tickets for their seven performance of Japan tour announced on August 19 by the band leader YOSHIKI was sold out in a few seconds at launch. Later, one single ticket was being negotiated at over 250,000 yen in an auction site.
A charity concert for the reconstruction from the Great East Japan Earthquake is programmed for November 28th, the first day of Japan tour at "Ishinomaki Blue Resistance", the live-house in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture. It has been 24 years since X JAPAN last performed in a live-house on December 31, 1991, at Meguro Rokumeikan in Tokyo.
YOSHIKI, who visited Ishinomaki, one of the devastated areas, last time on September 2013, promised another meeting at the same venue. This charity concert is to realize his promise. Total 150 tickets will be sold and the half, 75, of the tickets will be listed at a charity auction in the auction site "Yahoo Auction!" from the 15th of this month. The full amount gained through the auction will be donated to the Central Community Chest of Japan for the recovery of the affected areas. The rest of the tickets will be dedicated to the residents of Ishinomaki, Higashimatsushima, and Onagawa at no fee.
Other additional concerts are Yokohama Arena Concert on December 1 and Nippon Gaishi Hall concert on December 15 in Nagoya. In Yokohama Arena, X Japan will have concerts on 4 consecutive days( from December 1 to 4) for the first time in their career.
X JAPAN Japan Tour
November 28 (Sat): Miyagi, Ishinomaki Blue Resistance (additional)
December 1 (Tue): Yokohama Arena (additional)
December 2 (Wed): Yokohama Arena
December 3 (Thu): Yokohama Arena
December 4 (Fri): Yokohama Arena
December 7 (Mon): Osaka-Jo Hall
December 9 (Wed): Marine Messe Fukuoka
December 11 (Fri): Hiroshima Green Arena
December 14 (Mon): Nagoya Nippon Gaishi Hall
December 15 (Tue): Nagoya Nippon Gaishi Hall (additional)