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115-501: One Ok Rock ( Japanese : ワンオクロック , Hepburn : Wan Oku Rokku , stylized in all caps ) is a Japanese rock band formed in 2005. The band currently consists of vocalist Takahiro Moriuchi , guitarist Toru Yamashita , bassist Ryota Kohama , and drummer Tomoya Kanki . Former members include drummer Yu Koyanagi and guitarist Alexander "Alex" Reimon Onizawa. They play varied styles of music, with songs ranging from alternative rock and emo to post-hardcore and pop punk . One Ok Rock

230-452: A Coin on Netflix . The next day, on October 22, the band released the single "Wonder" through Fueled By Ramen. On June 21, 2022, it was announced that they will release a new single, "Save Yourself", on June 24 along with the music video. One Ok Rock announced their new album, Luxury Disease , would be available on September 9, 2022. On August 28, 2022, they announced another single "Let Me Let You Go" to be released on August 30 along with

345-639: A Live Documentary Video. On September 6, 2022, the band released a new single, "Vandalize", which was simultaneously announced to be featured as one of the ending themes for the video game Sonic Frontiers . One Ok Rock announced tour as the opening act for Muse 's Will of the People World Tour along with Evanescence in the United States and Canada in February and March 2023, as well as joining Muse for their European tour dates alongside Royal Blood . During

460-624: A benefit from the in-group to the out-group) means "[I/we] explained [it] to [him/her/them]". Such beneficiary auxiliary verbs thus serve a function comparable to that of pronouns and prepositions in Indo-European languages to indicate the actor and the recipient of an action. Japanese "pronouns" also function differently from most modern Indo-European pronouns (and more like nouns) in that they can take modifiers as any other noun may. For instance, one does not say in English: The amazed he ran down

575-589: A complex system of honorifics , with verb forms and vocabulary to indicate the relative status of the speaker, the listener, and persons mentioned. The Japanese writing system combines Chinese characters , known as kanji ( 漢字 , ' Han characters') , with two unique syllabaries (or moraic scripts) derived by the Japanese from the more complex Chinese characters: hiragana ( ひらがな or 平仮名 , 'simple characters') and katakana ( カタカナ or 片仮名 , 'partial characters'). Latin script ( rōmaji ローマ字 )

690-414: A distinct language of its own that has absorbed various aspects from neighboring languages. Japanese has five vowels, and vowel length is phonemic, with each having both a short and a long version. Elongated vowels are usually denoted with a line over the vowel (a macron ) in rōmaji , a repeated vowel character in hiragana , or a chōonpu succeeding the vowel in katakana . /u/ ( listen )

805-419: A glide /j/ and either the first part of a geminate consonant ( っ / ッ , represented as Q) or a moraic nasal in the coda ( ん / ン , represented as N). The nasal is sensitive to its phonetic environment and assimilates to the following phoneme, with pronunciations including [ɴ, m, n, ɲ, ŋ, ɰ̃] . Onset-glide clusters only occur at the start of syllables but clusters across syllables are allowed as long as

920-479: A listener depending on the listener's relative social position and the degree of familiarity between the speaker and the listener. When used in different social relationships, the same word may have positive (intimate or respectful) or negative (distant or disrespectful) connotations. Japanese often use titles of the person referred to where pronouns would be used in English. For example, when speaking to one's teacher, it

1035-542: A more hard rock sound. The band also announced the 2024 Premonition World Tour, with stadium concerts in Tokyo, Kaohsiung , Düsseldorf , Paris , London , Toronto and Los Angeles in September and October. On May 28, they announced that a new song, called "Dystopia" was chosen to be the ending theme song of Nippon Television 's news program, news zero . On June 11, the band announced their new single " Delusion:All " chosen to be

1150-500: A punk album. The album's confused origins were the reason why they would not play any songs from Beam of Light in live performances. Shortly after releasing Beam of Light , later they performed a gig at Shibuya AX . They had planned to release two albums in that one year, so they released Kanjou Effect in November 2008. At this point the band had gained more experience and were able to do some more serious recording. They settled into

1265-408: A sentence need not be stated and pronouns may be omitted if they can be inferred from context. In the example above, hana ga nagai would mean "[their] noses are long", while nagai by itself would mean "[they] are long." A single verb can be a complete sentence: Yatta! ( やった! ) "[I / we / they / etc] did [it]!". In addition, since adjectives can form the predicate in a Japanese sentence (below),

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1380-428: A single adjective can be a complete sentence: Urayamashii! ( 羨ましい! ) "[I'm] jealous [about it]!". While the language has some words that are typically translated as pronouns, these are not used as frequently as pronouns in some Indo-European languages, and function differently. In some cases, Japanese relies on special verb forms and auxiliary verbs to indicate the direction of benefit of an action: "down" to indicate

1495-416: A soundtrack song for Rurouni Kenshin: The Final titled " Renegades ". The song was co-written by Ed Sheeran and Coldrain 's frontman Masato Hayakawa and was released on April 16, 2021, via Fueled By Ramen for both Japanese and International versions. The band provided a new song for Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning in 2021, titled " Broken Heart of Gold " and released a trailer of the movie featuring

1610-624: Is compressed rather than protruded , or simply unrounded. Some Japanese consonants have several allophones , which may give the impression of a larger inventory of sounds. However, some of these allophones have since become phonemic. For example, in the Japanese language up to and including the first half of the 20th century, the phonemic sequence /ti/ was palatalized and realized phonetically as [tɕi] , approximately chi ( listen ) ; however, now [ti] and [tɕi] are distinct, as evidenced by words like tī [tiː] "Western-style tea" and chii [tɕii] "social status". The "r" of

1725-445: Is also seen in o-medetō "congratulations", from medetaku ). Late Middle Japanese has the first loanwords from European languages – now-common words borrowed into Japanese in this period include pan ("bread") and tabako ("tobacco", now "cigarette"), both from Portuguese . Modern Japanese is considered to begin with the Edo period (which spanned from 1603 to 1867). Since Old Japanese,

1840-464: Is also the name of their management agency they set up in 2021. The band released their self-produced demo CD "Do You Know A Christmas?" on December 21, 2005. In 2006, they released 2 EPs, " ONE OK ROCK" and " KEEP IT REAL" . After signing with Amuse, Inc. , Yu Koyanagi left the band to pursue an acting career and was replaced by Tomoya Kanki who was a student at the ESP Musical Academy and

1955-519: Is also used in a limited fashion (such as for imported acronyms) in Japanese writing. The numeral system uses mostly Arabic numerals , but also traditional Chinese numerals . Proto-Japonic , the common ancestor of the Japanese and Ryukyuan languages , is thought to have been brought to Japan by settlers coming from the Korean peninsula sometime in the early- to mid-4th century BC (the Yayoi period ), replacing

2070-643: Is an agglutinative , mora -timed language with relatively simple phonotactics , a pure vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length, and a lexically significant pitch-accent . Word order is normally subject–object–verb with particles marking the grammatical function of words, and sentence structure is topic–comment . Sentence-final particles are used to add emotional or emphatic impact, or form questions. Nouns have no grammatical number or gender , and there are no articles . Verbs are conjugated , primarily for tense and voice , but not person . Japanese adjectives are also conjugated. Japanese has

2185-440: Is appropriate to use sensei ( 先生 , "teacher"), but inappropriate to use anata . This is because anata is used to refer to people of equal or lower status, and one's teacher has higher status. Japanese nouns have no grammatical number, gender or article aspect. The noun hon ( 本 ) may refer to a single book or several books; hito ( 人 ) can mean "person" or "people", and ki ( 木 ) can be "tree" or "trees". Where number

2300-684: Is associated with comedy (see Kansai dialect ). Dialects of Tōhoku and North Kantō are associated with typical farmers. The Ryūkyūan languages, spoken in Okinawa and the Amami Islands (administratively part of Kagoshima ), are distinct enough to be considered a separate branch of the Japonic family; not only is each language unintelligible to Japanese speakers, but most are unintelligible to those who speak other Ryūkyūan languages. However, in contrast to linguists, many ordinary Japanese people tend to consider

2415-462: Is better documentation of Late Middle Japanese phonology than for previous forms (for instance, the Arte da Lingoa de Iapam ). Among other sound changes, the sequence /au/ merges to /ɔː/ , in contrast with /oː/ ; /p/ is reintroduced from Chinese; and /we/ merges with /je/ . Some forms rather more familiar to Modern Japanese speakers begin to appear – the continuative ending - te begins to reduce onto

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2530-509: Is correlated with the sex of the speaker and the social situation in which they are spoken: men and women alike in a formal situation generally refer to themselves as watashi ( 私 , literally "private") or watakushi (also 私 , hyper-polite form), while men in rougher or intimate conversation are much more likely to use the word ore ( 俺 "oneself", "myself") or boku . Similarly, different words such as anata , kimi , and omae ( お前 , more formally 御前 "the one before me") may refer to

2645-417: Is important, it can be indicated by providing a quantity (often with a counter word ) or (rarely) by adding a suffix, or sometimes by duplication (e.g. 人人 , hitobito , usually written with an iteration mark as 人々 ). Words for people are usually understood as singular. Thus Tanaka-san usually means Mx Tanaka . Words that refer to people and animals can be made to indicate a group of individuals through

2760-548: Is known of the language's prehistory, or when it first appeared in Japan. Chinese documents from the 3rd century AD recorded a few Japanese words, but substantial Old Japanese texts did not appear until the 8th century. From the Heian period (794–1185), extensive waves of Sino-Japanese vocabulary entered the language, affecting the phonology of Early Middle Japanese . Late Middle Japanese (1185–1600) saw extensive grammatical changes and

2875-722: Is less common. In terms of mutual intelligibility , a survey in 1967 found that the four most unintelligible dialects (excluding Ryūkyūan languages and Tōhoku dialects ) to students from Greater Tokyo were the Kiso dialect (in the deep mountains of Nagano Prefecture ), the Himi dialect (in Toyama Prefecture ), the Kagoshima dialect and the Maniwa dialect (in Okayama Prefecture ). The survey

2990-420: Is often called a topic-prominent language , which means it has a strong tendency to indicate the topic separately from the subject, and that the two do not always coincide. The sentence Zō wa hana ga nagai ( 象は鼻が長い ) literally means, "As for elephant(s), (the) nose(s) (is/are) long". The topic is zō "elephant", and the subject is hana "nose". Japanese grammar tends toward brevity; the subject or object of

3105-489: Is preserved in words such as matsuge ("eyelash", lit. "hair of the eye"); modern mieru ("to be visible") and kikoeru ("to be audible") retain a mediopassive suffix - yu(ru) ( kikoyu → kikoyuru (the attributive form, which slowly replaced the plain form starting in the late Heian period) → kikoeru (all verbs with the shimo-nidan conjugation pattern underwent this same shift in Early Modern Japanese )); and

3220-619: Is the national language , and within the Japanese diaspora worldwide. The Japonic family also includes the Ryukyuan languages and the variously classified Hachijō language . There have been many attempts to group the Japonic languages with other families such as the Ainu , Austronesian , Koreanic , and the now-discredited Altaic , but none of these proposals have gained any widespread acceptance. Little

3335-496: Is the sole guest feature on the album on the track "In the Stars", which was the theme song for the film Fortuna's Eye . Eye of the Storm was released in Japan on February 13, 2019, via A-Sketch and outside of Japan on February 15, 2019, via Fueled By Ramen. The band toured with Waterparks and Stand Atlantic in a headlining North American tour during February and March to support "Eye of

3450-402: Is the version of Japanese discussed in this article. Formerly, standard Japanese in writing ( 文語 , bungo , "literary language") was different from colloquial language ( 口語 , kōgo ) . The two systems have different rules of grammar and some variance in vocabulary. Bungo was the main method of writing Japanese until about 1900; since then kōgo gradually extended its influence and

3565-471: Is used for the present and the future. For verbs that represent an ongoing process, the -te iru form indicates a continuous (or progressive) aspect , similar to the suffix ing in English. For others that represent a change of state, the -te iru form indicates a perfect aspect. For example, kite iru means "They have come (and are still here)", but tabete iru means "They are eating". Questions (both with an interrogative pronoun and yes/no questions) have

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3680-405: Is why some linguists do not classify Japanese "pronouns" as pronouns, but rather as referential nouns, much like Spanish usted (contracted from vuestra merced , "your ( majestic plural ) grace") or Portuguese você (from vossa mercê ). Japanese personal pronouns are generally used only in situations requiring special emphasis as to who is doing what to whom. The choice of words used as pronouns

3795-658: The Billboard 200 . On the same week, it peaked at number 43 on Billboard Independent Albums . Then it peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Hard Rock Albums Chart and reached #1 on the Billboard World Albums Chart. In April 2015, they opened alongside Finch for Yellowcard 's U.S. tour. Following that, the band returned to Japan for their extensive album tour starting from May to September. The final concerts included bands like Issues and Against

3910-600: The 2013 MTV Video Music Awards Japan and a second award as Best Your Choice in Space Shower Music Video Awards . On January 9, 2013, One Ok Rock released the double single " Deeper Deeper/Nothing Helps ", and hit 2nd place on the Oricon charts. The song "Nothing Helps" was used for the Japanese version of the video game DmC: Devil May Cry , and "Deeper Deeper" was used for the commercial of Suzuki Swift Sport in Japan. Their sixth full-length album Jinsei×Boku=

4025-455: The Japonic language family, which also includes the Ryukyuan languages spoken in the Ryukyu Islands . As these closely related languages are commonly treated as dialects of the same language, Japanese is sometimes called a language isolate . According to Martine Irma Robbeets , Japanese has been subject to more attempts to show its relation to other languages than any other language in

4140-504: The Philippines , and various Pacific islands, locals in those countries learned Japanese as the language of the empire. As a result, many elderly people in these countries can still speak Japanese. Japanese emigrant communities (the largest of which are to be found in Brazil , with 1.4 million to 1.5 million Japanese immigrants and descendants, according to Brazilian IBGE data, more than

4255-615: The Tokyo-Osaka-Nagoya Quattro Tour . They released their second album Beam of Light in May 2008. In an interview with Rockin'On Japan magazine in June 2012, the band said they did not count this album as an album, but rather as a part of growing up as a band. When they made the album, they had not been in the right mood, but felt that they had to make it to grow as a band. The band came up with many sound sources and ended up making

4370-716: The United States (notably in Hawaii , where 16.7% of the population has Japanese ancestry, and California ), and the Philippines (particularly in Davao Region and the Province of Laguna ). Japanese has no official status in Japan, but is the de facto national language of the country. There is a form of the language considered standard : hyōjungo ( 標準語 ) , meaning "standard Japanese", or kyōtsūgo ( 共通語 ) , "common language", or even "Tokyo dialect" at times. The meanings of

4485-648: The Zankyo Reference Tour . The band also announced their final performance for this album as a two-day concert in Yokohama Arena on January 21 and 22, 2012. This was their first time playing in Yokohama Arena, the biggest venue in the Kantō region . The concert was sold out with more than 24,000 attendees. Later, the documentary of the Zankyo Reference Tour and the performance from the second night in Yokohama Arena

4600-794: The de facto standard Japanese had been the Kansai dialect , especially that of Kyoto . However, during the Edo period, Edo (now Tokyo) developed into the largest city in Japan, and the Edo-area dialect became standard Japanese. Since the end of Japan's self-imposed isolation in 1853, the flow of loanwords from European languages has increased significantly. The period since 1945 has seen many words borrowed from other languages—such as German, Portuguese and English. Many English loan words especially relate to technology—for example, pasokon (short for "personal computer"), intānetto ("internet"), and kamera ("camera"). Due to

4715-518: The 1.2 million of the United States ) sometimes employ Japanese as their primary language. Approximately 12% of Hawaii residents speak Japanese, with an estimated 12.6% of the population of Japanese ancestry in 2008. Japanese emigrants can also be found in Peru , Argentina , Australia (especially in the eastern states), Canada (especially in Vancouver , where 1.4% of the population has Japanese ancestry),

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4830-445: The 10th anniversary of My Chemical Romance 's album The Black Parade , Rock Sound announced a special cover album, including One Ok Rock. The band covered the first track, "The End". On September 10 and 11, the band held a special live concert at Nagisaen, Shizuoka, Japan for a crowd of 110,000 spectators. One Ok Rock also announced the digital single release of "Taking Off" on September 16, 2016, under Fueled by Ramen . The song

4945-571: The Billboard's Top Albums Sales chart. For the promotion of Niche Syndrome , One Ok Rock embarked on the " This is my own judgement!" tour initially in five Zepp music halls across the nation in 6 days, starting Sendai, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka and ending in a 2-day concert in Tokyo. The second part the tour took place at sixteen different venues until December 11, 2010. They held a final performance in Nippon Budokan , Tokyo on November 28, followed by

5060-454: The Current . In July 2015, One Ok Rock officially announced that they have signed with Warner Bros. Records and planned to re-release 35xxxv as a deluxe edition containing all English tracks on September 25, 2015. The band was set to have a North American tour in fall 2015 with a few selected cities as headlining artists, but was the opening act for All Time Low and Sleeping with Sirens for

5175-708: The Empire on the Monster Energy Outbreak Tour to promote their English album in the U.S. They also continued to tour in Europe at different music festivals and solo shows. On March 11, 2016, the band released a new song, "Always Coming Back" , that was featured in NTT Docomo 's phone commercial series, "Kanjou no Subete / Nakama". In mid-2016, One OK Rock joined 5 Seconds of Summer on the first North American leg of their Sounds Live Feels Live World Tour . To commemorate

5290-472: The Europe tour they also headlined separate shows across the continent as part of the Luxury Disease Tour . On December 11, 2022, the band announced Luxury Disease Japan tour for 2023 performing in all dome stadiums in Japan. On August 24, 2023, the band released a new single, " Make It Out Alive ", in collaboration with Monster Hunter Now , a mobile game that launched on September 14. The music video

5405-480: The Japanese and American entertainment industries. In October 2018, Amuse USA released the graphic novel Apocrypha: The Legend of Babymetal . In 2022, Amuse founded Kulture Inc., aiming to create next-generation entertainment with Web3 and metaverse content, such as NFTs . Amuse Models is a division of Amuse that was founded in 2004. Its division for child talents is sometimes called Amuse Kids. In 2014, Amuse merged with Will Corporation and then established

5520-482: The Japanese language is of particular interest, ranging between an apical central tap and a lateral approximant . The "g" is also notable; unless it starts a sentence, it may be pronounced [ ŋ ] , in the Kanto prestige dialect and in other eastern dialects. The phonotactics of Japanese are relatively simple. The syllable structure is (C)(G)V(C), that is, a core vowel surrounded by an optional onset consonant,

5635-510: The Japanese version of the album, Alex Gaskarth from All Time Low on the English version of the album, and the Australian band 5 Seconds of Summer on both. Alternative Press declared the collaboration song "Jaded" (with Alex Gaskarth ) as the best collaboration song of 2017. In January 2017, the band went on their North American tour for 6 concerts. From February to May 2017, they held 32 concerts in Japanese arenas. On February 9, 2017,

5750-523: The Japanese version. Their eighth album Ambitions also topped the Oricon Album weekly ranking. Current members Former members Japanese language Japanese ( 日本語 , Nihongo , [ɲihoŋɡo] ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people . It has around 123 million speakers, primarily in Japan , the only country where it

5865-724: The Old Japanese sections are written in Man'yōgana , which uses kanji for their phonetic as well as semantic values. Based on the Man'yōgana system, Old Japanese can be reconstructed as having 88 distinct morae . Texts written with Man'yōgana use two different sets of kanji for each of the morae now pronounced き (ki), ひ (hi), み (mi), け (ke), へ (he), め (me), こ (ko), そ (so), と (to), の (no), も (mo), よ (yo) and ろ (ro). (The Kojiki has 88, but all later texts have 87. The distinction between mo 1 and mo 2 apparently

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5980-488: The Ryūkyūan languages as dialects of Japanese. The imperial court also seems to have spoken an unusual variant of the Japanese of the time, most likely the spoken form of Classical Japanese , a writing style that was prevalent during the Heian period , but began to decline during the late Meiji period . The Ryūkyūan languages are classified by UNESCO as 'endangered', as young people mostly use Japanese and cannot understand

6095-609: The Storm". They also supported Ed Sheeran on the second Asian leg of the ÷ Tour throughout April and early May, and performed a headlining tour in Europe throughout the rest of May, with support from dream pop band Anteros and producer Dan Lancaster . One Ok Rock played a short U.S. tour of Oregon, California, and Mexico during July, during which they also played the Vans Warped Tour . Rock band Weathers served as support during this tour. One Ok Rock performed an arena tour of Japan from September 2019 to January 2020. In March 2020,

6210-604: The US Billboard 200 and international charts while incorporating more arena rock and pop-rock. In 2019, the band adopted a more electronic and pop sound on their ninth album Eye of the Storm . In 2022, they experimented with more rock-centered sound while still incorporating modern pop-rock for their new album, Luxury Disease . One Ok Rock won Classic Rock Roll of Honour Awards for Eastern Breakthrough Male Band in 2016, and Rock Sound Awards for Best International Band in 2017 and Best Live Performance in 2018. The band

6325-670: The US to hold two concerts in New York and Los Angeles and added two more dates in Philadelphia and Toronto in May. They also performed at Rock on the Range in Columbus, Ohio, their first festival outside Asia. On May 16, the documentary film about their last Europe and Asia Tour, Fool Cool Rock , was released and played for a limited time of four weeks at select theaters. The film, directed by Hiroyuki Nakano ,

6440-460: The Western sound they were influenced by. They replaced all their engineers and introduced their music to new producers. On April 5, 2009, Alex was arrested for groping the leg of a twenty-one-year-old female student on a train. He admitted to the charges and the case was settled out of court. The band reached their weakest point at this time. Ryota intended to leave bass and take up guitar. They felt it

6555-411: The actress Yasuko Tomita . The next year, the firm opened its subsidiary in the United States. Amuse Video Inc. was created in 1990 as the video software production and sales subsidiary of the company. In 1995, Amuse established Ayers Inc. through a joint venture with Bandai , and opened its first movie theater. In 2000, Amuse opened its Korean subsidiary, Amuse Korea Inc. On 20 September 2001, Amuse

6670-543: The addition of a collective suffix (a noun suffix that indicates a group), such as -tachi , but this is not a true plural: the meaning is closer to the English phrase "and company". A group described as Tanaka-san-tachi may include people not named Tanaka. Some Japanese nouns are effectively plural, such as hitobito "people" and wareware "we/us", while the word tomodachi "friend" is considered singular, although plural in form. Verbs are conjugated to show tenses, of which there are two: past and present (or non-past) which

6785-597: The band announced a livestreamed, stadium concert, entitled Field of Wonder , which took place at the Zozo Marine Stadium in Chiba City, Japan on October 11, 2020 without spectators. The concert was broadcast to worldwide audiences, and was the band's first performance since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic . In 2021, the band left Amuse, Inc. and established their own management agency 10969 Inc. The band provided

6900-420: The band announced that next album would be released in February 2015. The official website of the band was redesigned along with this announcement. Around December 16, 2014, the band revealed the cover and name of their new Japanese upcoming album, 35xxxv . The album peaked at #11 on Billboard ' s Heatseekers Albums . This chart is for new and upcoming musicians, which is usually a stepping stone towards

7015-427: The band announced their forthcoming album, Eye of the Storm . The second single, "Stand Out Fit In", considered the lead single for the album, was released the same day with a music video. "Change" was also featured on the album. On February 1, 2019, the band released the third and final single from the album, "Wasted Nights". The song serves as the theme song for the film Kingdom . American singer-songwriter Kiiara

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7130-462: The band re-arranged their songs to be played for one guitar. With the new four-member formation, One Ok Rock released the single "Kanzen Kankaku Dreamer" on February 3, 2010. The song peaked at number nine on the Oricon Singles Chart in Japan. After four months, the band released their fourth studio album titled Niche Syndrome . Released on June 9, 2010, the album peaked at number three on

7245-583: The band released a limited CD single " Skyfall ", which was only sold during the "Ambitions" Japan Tour at the show venues. The CD contains 3 songs: "Skyfall" (featuring MAH from SiM , Masato Hayakawa from Coldrain , and Koie from Crossfaith ), "Right by your side", and "Manhattan Beach". On May 2, 2017, it was announced that One Ok Rock would open Linkin Park 's One More Light Tour in North America for 4 dates and in Japan for 3 shows. Later on July 21, 2017, it

7360-556: The band released the single "Answer is Near", later, from April to June of the same year, they performed the " Answer is Alive 2011 tour". After that, One Ok Rock released their first double A-side single " Re:make/No Scared " on July 20, 2011. "No Scared" was the main theme for the Black Rock Shooter: The Game video game. The band's fifth album, Zankyo Reference , was released on October 5, 2011. One Ok Rock announced fourteen dates between November and December 2011 for

7475-400: The band toured Australia with American pop rock band Set It Off and Australian pop punk band Stateside serving as support. The band was set to finish their tour with an Asian leg spanning from April to July 2020. However, on March 17, 2020, the band announced that the tour dates would be postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic , with the shows ultimately being cancelled. On August 24, 2020,

7590-519: The band. The band's name was suggested by Koyanagi and comes from "one o'clock", the time that the band used to practice their music on weekends. They chose to play at one o'clock in the morning because it was cheaper to use the rehearsal space during such hours. However, noticing that the Japanese language made no distinction between R's and L's, "O'CLOCK" transformed into "O'CROCK" or "O'KROCK", which later transformed into "OK ROCK". In addition, One Ok Rock can be expressed as "10969" ( wan-ō-ku-ro-ku ). It

7705-482: The bass and asked Alexander Onizawa, who was their senior in school, to join to be their guitarist and his classmate, Yu Koyanagi, to play drums. While searching for a vocalist, Toru found Takahiro Moriuchi , who was in a cover band called Chivalry of Music. Impressed by Taka's singing skills, Toru insisted he join One Ok Rock instead. At first, Taka refused, despite repeated attempts to sway him, but eventually, he joined

7820-564: The effect of changing Japanese into a mora-timed language. Late Middle Japanese covers the years from 1185 to 1600, and is normally divided into two sections, roughly equivalent to the Kamakura period and the Muromachi period , respectively. The later forms of Late Middle Japanese are the first to be described by non-native sources, in this case the Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries; and thus there

7935-423: The first appearance of European loanwords . The basis of the standard dialect moved from the Kansai region to the Edo region (modern Tokyo ) in the Early Modern Japanese period (early 17th century–mid 19th century). Following the end of Japan's self-imposed isolation in 1853, the flow of loanwords from European languages increased significantly, and words from English roots have proliferated. Japanese

8050-609: The genitive particle ga remains in intentionally archaic speech. Early Middle Japanese is the Japanese of the Heian period , from 794 to 1185. It formed the basis for the literary standard of Classical Japanese , which remained in common use until the early 20th century. During this time, Japanese underwent numerous phonological developments, in many cases instigated by an influx of Chinese loanwords . These included phonemic length distinction for both consonants and vowels , palatal consonants (e.g. kya ) and labial consonant clusters (e.g. kwa ), and closed syllables . This had

8165-453: The languages of the original Jōmon inhabitants, including the ancestor of the modern Ainu language . Because writing had yet to be introduced from China, there is no direct evidence, and anything that can be discerned about this period must be based on internal reconstruction from Old Japanese , or comparison with the Ryukyuan languages and Japanese dialects . The Chinese writing system

8280-449: The languages. Okinawan Japanese is a variant of Standard Japanese influenced by the Ryūkyūan languages, and is the primary dialect spoken among young people in the Ryukyu Islands . Modern Japanese has become prevalent nationwide (including the Ryūkyū islands) due to education , mass media , and an increase in mobility within Japan, as well as economic integration. Japanese is a member of

8395-427: The large quantity of English loanwords, modern Japanese has developed a distinction between [tɕi] and [ti] , and [dʑi] and [di] , with the latter in each pair only found in loanwords. Although Japanese is spoken almost exclusively in Japan, it has also been spoken outside of the country. Before and during World War II , through Japanese annexation of Taiwan and Korea , as well as partial occupation of China ,

8510-549: The main stage, as well as Summer Sonic 2012, and additionally, Oga Namahage Rock Festival, Rising Sun Rock Festival, and Sweet Love Shower. Their next single, " The Beginning ", was chosen as the theme song for the live action movie adaptation of the Rurouni Kenshin manga, and was released on August 22, 2012, reaching number 2 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100 . Later, "The Beginning" won two awards: Best Rock Video from

8625-435: The most part. One Ok Rock also toured Europe and Asia to promote their album. On October 17, 2015, 35xxxv (Deluxe Edition) debuted at No. 20 on Billboard ’s Heatseekers Albums and its highest peak position is at No. 17. One Ok Rock returned to Japan for their One Thousand Miles Tour 2016 concert along with All Time Low and PVRIS . In early 2016, it was announced that One Ok Rock would open for Issues and Crown

8740-425: The only strict rule of word order is that the verb must be placed at the end of a sentence (possibly followed by sentence-end particles). This is because Japanese sentence elements are marked with particles that identify their grammatical functions. The basic sentence structure is topic–comment . For example, Kochira wa Tanaka-san desu ( こちらは田中さんです ). kochira ("this") is the topic of the sentence, indicated by

8855-470: The out-group gives a benefit to the in-group, and "up" to indicate the in-group gives a benefit to the out-group. Here, the in-group includes the speaker and the out-group does not, and their boundary depends on context. For example, oshiete moratta ( 教えてもらった ) (literally, "explaining got" with a benefit from the out-group to the in-group) means "[he/she/they] explained [it] to [me/us]". Similarly, oshiete ageta ( 教えてあげた ) (literally, "explaining gave" with

8970-415: The particle wa . The verb desu is a copula , commonly translated as "to be" or "it is" (though there are other verbs that can be translated as "to be"), though technically it holds no meaning and is used to give a sentence 'politeness'. As a phrase, Tanaka-san desu is the comment. This sentence literally translates to "As for this person, (it) is Mx Tanaka." Thus Japanese, like many other Asian languages,

9085-477: The proposed larger Altaic family, or to various Southeast Asian languages , especially Austronesian . None of these proposals have gained wide acceptance (and the Altaic family itself is now considered controversial). As it stands, only the link to Ryukyuan has wide support. Other theories view the Japanese language as an early creole language formed through inputs from at least two distinct language groups, or as

9200-533: The release of a concert DVD This is My Budokan?! on February 16, 2011. On August 6, 7 and 8, One Ok Rock headlined Rock in Japan Festival and Summer Sonic Festival , followed by Rising Sun Rock Festival , Monster Bash, Treasure05X, Mad Ollie, Countdown Japan 2010/2011, and Radio Crazy. The band supported Pay Money to My Pain in their 2010 Stay Real tour, The Hiatus in their Anomaly 2010 tour, and Totalfat in their Overdrive tour. On February 16, 2011,

9315-459: The same structure as affirmative sentences, but with intonation rising at the end. In the formal register, the question particle -ka is added. For example, ii desu ( いいです ) "It is OK" becomes ii desu-ka ( いいですか。 ) "Is it OK?". In a more informal tone sometimes the particle -no ( の ) is added instead to show a personal interest of the speaker: Dōshite konai-no? "Why aren't (you) coming?". Some simple queries are formed simply by mentioning

9430-421: The second single from the upcoming album. The third single, "I was King", was released on December 16, 2016. On January 1, 2017, One Ok Rock opened a special site "World Ambitions", in celebration of the new album, Ambitions . World Ambitions was a website that visually represented images of "hope" being shared and spread from users around the world through the website and Twitter/Instagram. People from all over

9545-633: The song "Decision" is the theme song for their documentary film Foo Cool Rock . The music video for "Decision" released on August 20, 2014, is a compilation of footage from their tours in Europe and Asia. In September 2014, the song "Heartache" became part of the Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends ' s soundtrack. Subsequently, in September 2014, One Ok Rock held a two-day stadium concert in Yokohama Stadium in front of 60,000 people called Mighty Long Fall Live at Yokohama Stadium 2014 . This

9660-539: The song on their official YouTube channel. The song was released on May 27, 2021. On July 31, 2021, One Ok Rock held a livestreamed acoustic performance titled "Day to Night Acoustic Session" from the Kawaguchiko Stellar Theater in Yamanashi, Japan. They played more than ten songs, including a cover of Hikaru Utada 's 1999 song " First Love ". On October 21, 2021, One Ok Rock released the documentary Flip

9775-797: The state as at the time the constitution was written, many of the elders participating in the process had been educated in Japanese during the South Seas Mandate over the island shown by the 1958 census of the Trust Territory of the Pacific that found that 89% of Palauans born between 1914 and 1933 could speak and read Japanese, but as of the 2005 Palau census there were no residents of Angaur that spoke Japanese at home. Japanese dialects typically differ in terms of pitch accent , inflectional morphology , vocabulary , and particle usage. Some even differ in vowel and consonant inventories, although this

9890-476: The street. (grammatically incorrect insertion of a pronoun) But one can grammatically say essentially the same thing in Japanese: 驚いた彼は道を走っていった。 Transliteration: Odoroita kare wa michi o hashitte itta. (grammatically correct) This is partly because these words evolved from regular nouns, such as kimi "you" ( 君 "lord"), anata "you" ( あなた "that side, yonder"), and boku "I" ( 僕 "servant"). This

10005-587: The success, the band started to release their later albums in two versions (Japanese-English and full English) with 2 to 3 different tracks in each version. Their seventh studio album, 35xxxv , became their first album which charted on US Billboard . It peaked at No. 11 on Heatseekers Albums , No. 43 on Independent Albums , No. 23 on the Hard Rock Albums , and No. 1 on the World Albums Chart. The band's eighth album, Ambitions , debuted at No. 106 on

10120-685: The theme song for the 4th Kingdom movie which to be release on July 12, 2024 alongside the movie. One Ok Rock's influences are Linkin Park , Foo Fighters , Good Charlotte , Ellegarden , and the Used . The group's initial idea began when Yamashita wanted to start a rock band and invited Kohama to join him. Good Charlotte's influences are seen on their first album, Zeitakubyō ; while the Foo Fighters' influences can be seen on their second and third albums, Beam of Light and Kanjō Effect . In their sixth album Jinsei×Boku= , they expressed how this album

10235-788: The topic with an interrogative intonation to call for the hearer's attention: Kore wa? "(What about) this?"; O-namae wa? ( お名前は？ ) "(What's your) name?". Negatives are formed by inflecting the verb. For example, Pan o taberu ( パンを食べる。 ) "I will eat bread" or "I eat bread" becomes Pan o tabenai ( パンを食べない。 ) "I will not eat bread" or "I do not eat bread". Plain negative forms are i -adjectives (see below) and inflect as such, e.g. Pan o tabenakatta ( パンを食べなかった。 ) "I did not eat bread". Amuse, Inc. Amuse produces TV and radio programs, commercial films, and movies. Other interests are in publication, music software, and patent agent businesses. The private Amuse Museum , located in Asakusa, Tokyo ,

10350-419: The two consonants are the moraic nasal followed by a homorganic consonant. Japanese also includes a pitch accent , which is not represented in moraic writing; for example [haꜜ.ɕi] ("chopsticks") and [ha.ɕiꜜ] ("bridge") are both spelled はし ( hashi ) , and are only differentiated by the tone contour. Japanese word order is classified as subject–object–verb . Unlike many Indo-European languages ,

10465-577: The two methods were both used in writing until the 1940s. Bungo still has some relevance for historians, literary scholars, and lawyers (many Japanese laws that survived World War II are still written in bungo , although there are ongoing efforts to modernize their language). Kōgo is the dominant method of both speaking and writing Japanese today, although bungo grammar and vocabulary are occasionally used in modern Japanese for effect. The 1982 state constitution of Angaur , Palau , names Japanese along with Palauan and English as an official language of

10580-472: The two terms (''hyōjungo'' and ''kyōtsūgo'') are almost the same. Hyōjungo or kyōtsūgo is a conception that forms the counterpart of dialect. This normative language was born after the Meiji Restoration ( 明治維新 , meiji ishin , 1868) from the language spoken in the higher-class areas of Tokyo (see Yamanote ). Hyōjungo is taught in schools and used on television and in official communications. It

10695-407: The verb (e.g. yonde for earlier yomite ), the -k- in the final mora of adjectives drops out ( shiroi for earlier shiroki ); and some forms exist where modern standard Japanese has retained the earlier form (e.g. hayaku > hayau > hayɔɔ , where modern Japanese just has hayaku , though the alternative form is preserved in the standard greeting o-hayō gozaimasu "good morning"; this ending

10810-459: The world could upload pictures with yellow in it, symbolizing hope and connecting them all. Users could share their images through SNS (Twitter, Instagram). On January 9, 2017, the band released a single, titled "We Are". The Japanese version of Ambitions was released on January 11, 2017, under A-Sketch. The English version of the album was released on January 13, 2017, by Fueled by Ramen. Ambitions features collaborations with Avril Lavigne on

10925-548: The world. Since Japanese first gained the consideration of linguists in the late 19th century, attempts have been made to show its genealogical relation to languages or language families such as Ainu , Korean , Chinese , Tibeto-Burman , Uralic , Altaic (or Ural-Altaic ), Austroasiatic , Austronesian and Dravidian . At the fringe, some linguists have even suggested a link to Indo-European languages , including Greek , or to Sumerian . Main modern theories try to link Japanese either to northern Asian languages, like Korean or

11040-442: Was affiliated originally with Amuse . ever since their debut in 2007. The band left Amuse on April 1, 2021, and established their own management agency, named 10969 Inc. In the United States, they are signed with record label Fueled by Ramen . One Ok Rock rose to international fame with their 2012 single " The Beginning " from their sixth album Jinsei×Boku= , which led them to concerts and music festivals outside Asia. Following

11155-573: Was already in a band that was not going well. He then joined One Ok Rock in 2006 and became an official member when they debuted in 2007. In 2007, the band released their debut single, "Naihishinsho", reached number 48 on the Oricon Charts and sold 15,000 copies. Their second and third single, " Yume Yume" and "Et Cetera" , replicated that success and charted at number 43 and 29, respectively. After those singles, they released their debut album Zeitakubyō on November 21, 2007, and had their first tour,

11270-417: Was also nominated for two Alternative Press Music Awards – Best International Band in 2016 and Best Breakthrough Band in 2017. The history of One Ok Rock began on July 29, 2005, when Toru Yamashita , a high school student, wanted to start a band. He invited his childhood friend Ryota Kohama , who was also a member of the hip-hop dance group HEADS they were both in years prior. He told Ryota to learn

11385-577: Was announced that their North American Tour got cancelled because of Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington 's suicide on July 20, 2017, a week before their shows; while Linkin Park's final leg in Japan was cancelled on October 3, 2017. One Ok Rock paid tribute to Chester Bennington by covering Linkin Park's song " One More Light " during their live performances. Taka participated in the memorial concert for Bennington, titled "Linkin Park & Friends", singing "Somewhere I Belong". On February 16, 2018, they released their first single of 2018, "Change". The song

11500-535: Was based on 12- to 20-second-long recordings of 135 to 244 phonemes , which 42 students listened to and translated word-for-word. The listeners were all Keio University students who grew up in the Kanto region . There are some language islands in mountain villages or isolated islands such as Hachijō-jima island , whose dialects are descended from Eastern Old Japanese . Dialects of the Kansai region are spoken or known by many Japanese, and Osaka dialect in particular

11615-411: Was created. Amuse intended to give a second life to J-pop by promoting the bands Flumpool and Weaver. In 2013, it produced and distributed the movie The Eternal Zero . In 2015, Amuse France Inc. was created. In January 2016, Amuse established a partnership with New Japan Pro-Wrestling , a promotion in which Amuse owns shares. In the US, Amuse launched J-Creation to further develop ties between

11730-459: Was great to collaborate with Taka on our new song called War. I am a huge fan of his voice and of One Ok Rock and I think that our voices work very well together". On November 13, 2016, NHK ( Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai , a Japan Broadcasting Corporation) held ONE OK ROCK 18 Festival (18 FES) where One Ok Rock and 1,000 youths (17 – 19 years old from the whole country) sang together on one stage. On November 18, 2016, One Ok Rock released "Bedroom Warfare",

11845-718: Was imported to Japan from Baekje around the start of the fifth century, alongside Buddhism. The earliest texts were written in Classical Chinese , although some of these were likely intended to be read as Japanese using the kanbun method, and show influences of Japanese grammar such as Japanese word order. The earliest text, the Kojiki , dates to the early eighth century, and was written entirely in Chinese characters, which are used to represent, at different times, Chinese, kanbun , and Old Japanese. As in other texts from this period,

11960-509: Was impossible for them to add a new member. The band's next single, "Around the World Shounen", which was planned for a May 6 release as the theme song for the TV drama GodHand Teru , and their nationwide tour were both cancelled. In May 2009, it was announced that One Ok Rock would continue on as a 4 piece band without Alex, who went back to the United States. Toru took his place as lead guitar, and

12075-463: Was influenced by Linkin Park 's screaming and yell-rapping. Their seventh album 35xxxv , was produced along with producer John Feldmann . The album reached first place on the Oricon Album weekly ranking, making it the first time the band had reached the top of the list. In addition, it was the first One Ok Rock album to be released in a separate English language international edition in addition to

12190-642: Was listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange . Its distributed film The Pianist won the Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival . In 2004, Amuse opened its e-commerce site, Ambra. In 2007, it established its music label Taishita in joint venture with Victor Entertainment . In 2008, the group invested in Brussels Co. Ltd., a company that develops Belgian beer bars. In 2009, the group launched its subsidiary Amuse Edutainment Inc. In 2012, Amuse Singapore

12305-465: Was lost immediately following its composition.) This set of morae shrank to 67 in Early Middle Japanese , though some were added through Chinese influence. Man'yōgana also has a symbol for /je/ , which merges with /e/ before the end of the period. Several fossilizations of Old Japanese grammatical elements remain in the modern language – the genitive particle tsu (superseded by modern no )

12420-463: Was made by vocalist Taka alongside the band's producer for a HondaJet commercial. The band remained relatively silent throughout the rest of the year (with the exception of embarking on their Ambitions Dome Tour in Japan, announced the previous year), until the announcement of a small, four date tour with an orchestra in Japan in late October, as well as a small European tour in December. On November 23,

12535-469: Was owned by the company. It featured ukiyo-e and textile displays. Amuse Inc. was created in 1978 when it signed with the rock band Southern All Stars . Soon after in 1981, the company created its movie production and distribution subsidiary Amuse Cinema City Inc. and produced Morning Moon Wa Sozatsu Ni (starring Shin Kishida ) that same year, followed by Aiko 16 sai (1983). In 1983, Amuse signed with

12650-487: Was released on August 29, 2023. On October 6, 2023, One Ok Rock released "Prove" as the opening theme for the anime Beyblade X . One Ok Rock and My First Story – whose vocalist is Taka's brother, Hiro – held a one-night-only live show "VS" at Tokyo Dome on November 14, 2023. On May 13, 2024 lead singer Taka announced on his Instagram live that the band finished recording their new album in Los Angeles, which will have

12765-751: Was released on Blu-ray and DVD on May 30, 2012. During 2011, One Ok Rock headlined many music festivals, including Jisan Valley Rock Festival in South Korea. In July the band performed at Setstock 2011, followed by Rock in Japan Festival, Rising Sun Rock Festival, Summer Sonic Festival, Monster Bash, Sky Jamboree, and Space Shower 's Sweet Love Shower. At the end of the year, they headlined Radio Crazy and Countdown Japan once more. The band declared their first overseas tour in Start Walking The World on May and June 2012, covering Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore. They headlined Rock in Japan Festival on

12880-509: Was released on DVD and Blu-ray in November 2014, with promotional screenings in Bangkok, Thailand, and Hong Kong. In June and July 2014 they joined Vans Warped Tour 2014 and performed in eighteen cities in North America. On July 30, 2014, One Ok Rock released the double A-side single " Mighty Long Fall/Decision ", and while "Mighty Long Fall", was the theme song for the movie sequel of Rurouni Kenshin entitled Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno ,

12995-428: Was released on March 6, 2013, and managed to reach second place on the Oricon weekly chart. In October 2013 the band went on their first tour outside Asia and visited Europe for five concerts. Most of the concerts in Europe were sold out almost immediately. On January 12, 2014, their album producer John Feldmann related that One Ok Rock had already started recording their forthcoming album. In February 2014 they visited

13110-702: Was their first time performing in a stadium. One Ok Rock announced U.S., South American and European tours in late 2014. They performed at Knotfest , in both Japan and the United States, with an additional two dates for the United States in October. At the end of October 2014, the band started their first tour in Latin America visiting five countries. On November 27, they were a guest performer in Hoobastank 's Japan tour and returned their tour, this time in Europe, performing in ten more countries in December. On October 9, 2014,

13225-418: Was used as a theme song for the Japanese film Museum starring Shun Oguri . Later at a special live concert, Taka announced that their 8th studio album would be released the following year following an album tour. On October 8, Sum 41 released the Japanese edition of their album, 13 Voices , including the song "War" featuring Taka. Deryck Whibley from Sum 41 mentioned to Alternative Press Japan that "It

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