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Described as Tokyo: the first Argentine Tango Dance Asia Championship was held in June 2004

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  1. Electronic and festival era8 days agoDescribed as Tokyo: the first Argentine Tango Dance Asia Championship was held in June 2004
  2. Revival8 days agoDescribed as Japan: the show Tango Argentino was broadcast on television, and the magazine Asahi Graph gave a whole issue to its commentary
  3. Nuevo8 days agoDescribed as Japan: the Min-On Tango Series began, bringing Argentine tango artists to Japan every year
  4. Golden Age8 days agoDescribed as Japan: the first Argentine orchestra to play in Japan was Juan Canaro's; by the 1950s more than twenty tango orchestras existed in Japan, the most popular being
  5. Golden Age8 days agoDescribed as Fujisawa, Hayakawa and Kenji Tone made a concert trip to Argentina to study tango further
  6. Golden Age8 days agoDescribed as Tokyo: the singer Ranko Fujisawa, nicknamed the Queen of Tango, made her first record for Victor, as singer of Shimpei Hayakawa's Orquesta Típica Tokyo
  7. Golden Age8 days agoDescribed as Japan: Noriko Awaya and other singers popularised the Japanese style of tango in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and tango gained popularity because jazz was pr
  8. Golden Age8 days agoDescribed as Tokyo: on 31 October 1940, under the wartime ban on dancing, the city's dance halls closed, all crowded on the last night
  9. Guardia Nueva8 days agoDescribed as Tokyo: Megata opened a tango academy to teach the Japanese aristocracy to dance tango free of charge, and published 'A method to dance the argentine tango'
  10. Guardia Nueva8 days agoDescribed as Tokyo: because the records carried French labels, the Japanese at first believed tango had originated in France
  11. Guardia Nueva8 days agoDescribed as Tokyo: Baron Megata returned from Paris, where he had lived from 1920 and learned to dance tango at the cabaret El Garrón; he brought home tango records by Gena
  12. Guardia Vieja8 days agoDescribed as Yokohama: the first commercial dance hall in Japan opened at Kagetsuen (now in Tsurumi, Yokohama)
  13. Juan Antonio Collazo8 days ago12 facts added.
  14. José Martínez8 days ago23 facts added.
  15. Piotr Leshchenko8 days ago3 facts added.
  16. Héctor Palacios8 days ago13 facts added.
  17. Humberto Canaro8 days ago26 facts added.
  18. Elizardo Martínez Vilas8 days ago30 facts added.
  19. Elizardo Martínez Vilas8 days ago30 facts added.
  20. Cristóbal Herreros8 days ago8 facts added.
  21. Alberto Soifer8 days ago22 facts added.
  22. Miguel F. Osés8 days ago3 facts added.
  23. Antonio Arcieri8 days ago6 facts added.
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