【携帯でご覧の場合は、🇬🇧英語 ➡︎🇯🇵日本語と続きますのでスクロールをお願いします】 Update 20th July: Our event highlight video is up on YouTube. It vividly brings back the atmosphere of the day. Since the performance was planned last autumn and finally took place this spring, the season has changed to summer. While we were working on the project, the town of Suzu continued to recover […]

【携帯でご覧の場合は、🇬🇧英語 ➡︎🇯🇵日本語と続きますのでスクロールをお願いします】 Update 10th June: It has been nearly three months since the performance, but we have finally completed the process of sending the donations we received for Suzu. As we wanted to ensure that the donations would directly support the people of Suzu, we decided to use the disaster recovery account established by the

【携帯でご覧の場合は、英語 ➡︎日本語と続きますのでスクロールをお願いします】 March 16: Thanks to everyone’s support, we were able to successfully give our performance. Despite various challenges leading up to the day, many people attended, and it was particularly memorable that everyone commented on the warm atmosphere of the concert. The event featured a concert, an introduction of Suzu, and a lunch including

【携帯でご覧の場合は、🇬🇧英語 ➡︎🇯🇵日本語と続きますのでスクロールをお願いします】 We had a Zoom meeting with Mr. Mizukami, who lives in Suzu. He told us about the way things are in Suzu these days. Listening to him, we could feel how the environment around the people there is changing constantly as time passes. For the day of the concert, we are planning to

【携帯でご覧の場合は、🇬🇧英語 ➡︎🇯🇵日本語と続きますのでスクロールをお願いします】 From there, the project began, transcending the time difference between Japan and the UK. True to its name, once SuperDuo started working on a project, ideas began to bubble up. As 2025 dawned, we realised that a year had passed since the Noto earthquake. In January 2025, the framework for the event began

【携帯でご覧の場合は、英語 ➡︎日本語と続きますのでスクロールをお願いします】 By contrast, Japan is ranked as the ‘most attractive country’ in the world and the country I want to visit again‘ (2024), and there is a high level of interest in tourism to Japan worldwide. To learn in detail about the events that have taken place since the Noto Peninsula Earthquake up to the present

【携帯でご覧の場合は、🇬🇧英語 ➡︎🇯🇵日本語と続きますのでスクロールをお願いします】 The 2024 Noto Peninsula Earthquake and the September 2018 Heavy RainfallThe Noto Peninsula earthquake occurred while Shima coincidentally was arranging her flight tickets to Japan. It was also when she had just arrived in the UK after the SuperDuo concert in Tokyo that the disaster-stricken area was hit by record-breaking rainfall. Realising that this is a

【携帯でご覧の場合は、🇬🇧英語 ➡︎🇯🇵日本語と続きますのでスクロールをお願いします】 SuperDuo is a ‘duo that connects the UK and Japan through a shared love of music’ featuring Shima Kobayashi (Shima) and Midori Tamura (Midori). The two first met in London. Shima had been travelling across Japan to deliver performances as an artist for the Japan Foundation for Regional Art-Activities‘ initiative to develop the music scene in public concert halls,