General Events

It's Saturday Nite Live! (NO RESERVATION REQUIRED.) Chris Grundy has been performing in Japan since 1996, and regularly takes his show of Instrumental Guitar on the road, playing shows throughout the country. Performing songs from some of the world’s greatest guitar players, and songs from...

It's Saturday Nite Live! (NO RESERVATION REQUIRED.) Pachi Bow Duo (Felix Sonnyboy & Ayako Okunuki) Felix Sonnyboy is a "songster" from Michigan U.S.A. He knows over 2000 songs and has written 500. Felix has traveled and sung in all 50 states, most of Western European...

It's Saturday Nite Live ! (NO RESERVATION REQUIRED) Taku & Rei are longtime FCCJ favorites due to Rei’s sultry alto vocals & charming stage presence with Taku’s lush piano accompaniment.  They are supported by bassist, Toshiyuki Kodaka. Taku Yasumi, (Pianist/Arranger/Music Producer) played jazz piano while...

It's SATURDAY NITE LIVE! (NO RESERVATION REQUIRED) “Butler’s sax has a simplicity to it that belies its complexity and directed energy. He plays sax that sounds natural and right, but engages at all kinds of levels. Whether it’s dancing notes across the funky version of...

It's Saturday Nite Live! (NO RESERVATION REQUIRED) The duo of Rambling Steve Gardner and Felix Sonnyboy are FCCJ regulars and play a variety of American Big Leg Acoustic music from deep Mississippi Country Blues to the high lonesome finger picking ballads of Virginia. Both artists...

Freedom of the Press Awards Ceremony 2022 19:00-20:00, Tuesday, April 26, 2022 (The ceremony and Q & A will be in English-Japanese) In a world that intimidates, imprisons and even kills them for their work, journalists continue to report from all corners to inform the...

Tsugaru Shamisen Dinner Concert: Sho Asano and Sachie Asano as players Monday, April 25, 2022 (Doors open 18:15) Dinner 18:30-19:15 Concert 19:30-20:30 (with a short intermission) Sho Asano, a pioneer Tsugaru-Shamisen player who has stretched traditional samisen to the jazz and Latin music fields, will...