[/floatl]24.com: Live Earth Japan revealed
Composer Ryuichi Sakamoto and hard rockers Linkin Park will headline the Japanese leg of worldwide Live Earth concerts to drum up support for the fight against global warming, organisers said on Monday. Live Earth, whose planners include former US vice president Al Gore, entails 24 hours of concerts across seven continents on July 7...Japan will be the only country with two events. The main stage will be in suburban Tokyo, with a concert also planned at a Buddhist temple in the ancient capital of Kyoto, namesake of the landmark environmental treaty...The Kyoto temple event will feature the Yellow Magic Orchestra...California-based Linkin Park and Barbados-born R&B artist Rihanna will be the foreign musicians on the Tokyo stage, the statement said. The Tokyo line-up also includes three top-selling female Japanese singers - Ai Otsuka, Cocco and Kumi Koda.
