WELCOME TO RINGO JIHEN!
Welcome! This is an unofficial website devoted to J-rock queen Shiina Ringo, who has recently ended her solo career, and her new band Tokyo Jihen (also known as Tokyo Incidents).
This website is mantained by Sakura and Loire. For more info about us and this site, check the "faq & about site" section.
SHIINA RINGO AND TOKYO JIHEN NEWS
April 6: new Ringo Jihen forums *important*
The new Ringo Jihen forums are finally online! You can find them here. Please come and join us again!
March 16: Ringo Jihen forums
We are sorry to announce that the Ringo Jihen forums are now out of control due to the unreasonable and almost dictatorial attitude of one of our admin. In addiition, he banned the whole staff and all the members who tried to complain about his methods. That's why we will stop supporting the forums in order to create a new Ringo Jihen community. We will post the forums link as soon as it will be available. If you know some of the forums members, please let them know about it.
Thanks for your understanding.
December 8: new DVD
Ringo is going to release a new live DVD featuring the fanclub only concert ADULTS ONLY on February 21st. The new album will be titled Heisei Fuzoku, and it will be released in a limited cross-shaped digipack edition with some stickers. In addition cover and tracklist of the new single have been revelead. You can read tracklist and details about all Ringo's upcoming releases in our discography section.
November 5: new Shiina Ringo album and soundtrack
Ringo has composed the soundtrack for the movie Sakuran and performed the theme song Karisome Otome (Death Jazz Version) with SOIL & "PIMP" SESSIONS. The single of this track will be released online on November 11. The PV will be available in a special DVD for people who will pre-order tickets for the movie. A Tower Records version of the DVD will be available since December 12 and will be limited to 5000 copies.
Ringo also planned a new solo release! A new single titled Kono Yo no Kagiri will be released on January 17 followed by a new album on February 21. Special guests for the new single will be Shiina Jumpei and violinist Neko Saito.
August 6: more about the new DVD, new PVs
Tokyo Jihen have released more informations about the upcoming live DVD Just Can't Help It. It features more than 22 songs (running time 96 mnutes approximately) including the new track Mirrorball and the new cover C'm'on Let's Go. You can see the cover of the DVD in our discography section.
Ringo also announced on her personal site that the new PVs for Mirroball and Shoujo robot will be aired on TV since August 14.
July 2: new live DVD
The "DOMESTIC!" Just can't help it live DVD will be released on September 6, 2006. More info will be available in the upcoming weeks.
In addition, Hata Toshiki won't be attending the upcoming events due to a broken bone, but he has already announced that he will be back as soon as he will be better.
June 6: Kenichi Asai
Ringo will be singing in Kenichi Asai's upcoming single
January 2: new PV
Tokyo Jihen have a new video for the song Kenka Joutou. You can watch it exclusively on MTV since January 7 and since January 10 on the other japanese music channels. The video is set at Oyaishi, an underground cavern in Tochigi prefecture.
December 19: Tokyo Jihen Live Tour April-May
04/07 Kamakura Geijutu Dai-Hall
04/09 Hokkaido Kousei Nenkin Kaikan
04/13 Omiya Sonic City Dai-Hall
04/14 Niigata Kenminkan
04/18 Sendai Sun Plaza Hall
04/19 Morioka Shinmin Bunka Hall
04/24 Fukuoka Sun Palace
04/25 Fukuoka Sun Palace
04/27 Kurashiki Shimin Kaikan
04/29 Hiroshima Kousei Nenkin Kaikan
04/30 Kyoto Kaikan Dai-ichi Hall
05/08 Toyama Aubade Hall
05/10 Nagoya Century Hall
05/11 Nagoya Century Hall
05/16 Shizuoka Shimin Bunka Kaikan
05/18 Matsuyama Shimin Kaikan
05/20 Osaka Festival Hall
05/21 Osaka Festival Hall
05/25 NHK Hall
05/26 NHK Hall
05/30 Okinawa Convention Gekijo
December 16: Adult cover
The CD cover for the two edition of the album Otona (Adult) have been published. You can see them in our Discography section.
October 26: new Tokyo Jihen album!
The second Tokyo Jihen album, Otona, will be released on January 25 in two different versions: the regular edition (Femme) and a limited one (Homme), with a bonus booklet, a perfume (!!) and a DVD with a video of Himitsu from the Dynamite tour. Here's the tracks list (thanks to Op2 for posting it in our forum!):
01.Himitsu
02.Kenka Jotou
03.Keshou Naoshi
04.Superstar
05.Shuraba (Adult Version)
06.Yukiguni
07.Kabuki
08.Blackout
09.Tasogare Naki
10.Toumei Ningen
11.Tegami
September 29: new band members, single cover and concerts
Finally Tokyo Jihen announced the names of the new band members. They are Ukigumo on guitar and Izawa Ichiyou on keyboards. You can see a new promotional photo at Toshiba-EMI Official Site. The cover of Shuraba has also been published, click here to watch it. The band is going to start a new tour next year, here are the first two dates:
Nippon Budoukan (Tokyo)
February 19, 2005
Doors Open at 18:00, Starts at 19:00
Tickets: ¥6,300 / standing room only: ¥5,500
Osaka-jou Hall (Osaka)
February 21, 2006
Doors Open at 18:00, Starts at 19:00
Tickets: ¥6,300 / standing room only: ¥5,500
Thanks to Op2 for posting and
translating some of these news in our forum.
September 9: new Tokyo Jihen single
The new Tokyo Jihen single, titled Shuraba, will be released on November 2, 2005! It features two tracks composed by Ringo and a cover song.
01.Shuraba
02.Koi wa Maboroshi (cover of Get It Up For Love by Ned Doheny)
03.Rakujitsu
September 5: Hirama's solo album
Former Tokyo Jihen guitarist Hirama Mikio is going to release his first solo album titled Bunmei Koukyou Virus on October 19, 2005.
August 4: news
After several problems the site is finally updated!
-HZM and Hirama left the band to focus on their own activities. You can read their message to the fans (in Japanese) here.
-Ringo ranked #41 in the Popularity Rankings published by Oricon. You can read the whole Top50 here.
-"Kyouiku" is the 17th best-selling albums of the last six months according to an Oricon report.
-"Dynamite In!", a DVD featuring a 45 minutes documentary with live videos as well, has been released on July 13. You can watch a short sample here.
-"Dynamite Out!", a DVD featuring the recording of the Nagoya Century Hall Concert, will be released on August 17.
January 23: RingoJihen's new home, Tokyo Jihen's new song!
Here we are in our new home, please change your links and bookmarks ^__^
Tokyo Jihen's tour has started and they have performed a new song, called "Hatsukoi" (First Love), which is rumoured to be Tokyo Jihen's next single!
November 25: New album "Kyouiku"
Tokyo Jihen's first album "Kyouiku" (Education) has been released today. You can read more informations about the release in our Discography section. We also added a page for the upcoming DVD "Tokyo Incidents vol.1".
October, 10: TV appearance, first DVD release and new video version
There is a new version for the (beautiful) Sounan PV: just like "Gunjou hiyori" which had "Sono onna fushidara ni tsuki (The lady is a tramp)", "Sounan" will have "Dynamite" attached to its end. And if you live in Japan, do not miss TJ's appearance in the Japanese TV programme "Music Station" on October, 29!
Lastly, TJ will release their first DVD containing PVs, lives and other special features on December 8. Its title is "Tokyo Incidents vol. I".
September, 30: New analog releases and "Sounan" video
The video for "Sounan" is officially around (and, a-hem, you might be able to find it on your favourite p2p programme, or bittorrent, or such). I haven't seen it yet, I'll post the captions as soon as I can.
Plans for the analog (vynil) releases have been made. An analog version of the album "Kyouiku", as well as a joint LP with "Gunjou hiyori" on face A and "Sounan" on face B will be released later this autumn. Anyway, they all will be limited editions, and the label will only print the effective number of preordered copies. So you'll have to preorder your copies before October 13. If you don't live in Japan it might be quite hard. Try Yesasia or CD Japan.
September, 25: New single preview and Ringo collaboration
Yesterday, Tokyo Jihen's second single "Sounan" has started airing in radios across Japan, and its PV was first shown in exclusive by Space Shower channel. Anyway, the release date is supposed to be October, 20th.
Shiina Ringo will partecipate as backing vocalist to the new Zazen Boys album, which will be out at the end of this year.
September, 21: Weekly chart results
Oricon has published this week's chart. "Gunjou Hiyori" ranked 2nd, and sold 100988 copies in its first release week. Congratulations for the great result of their debut work!
September, 15: "Dynamite!" 2005 tour dates
The dates for Tokyo Jihen's 2005 tour, called "Dynamite!", have been published on Kronekodow and TJ official site. Tickets will be on sale from November 28th, and will cost ¥5,775 for seats and ¥5,250 for standing places. To know what are the dates, click here.
September, 12: New album & new single news
The next single will be released on October, 20th. Its title is "Sounan" (Catastrophe); click here for more info. Moreover TJ's debut album will be titled "Kyouiku" (Education) and will be released on Ringo's birthday, November 25th. For the tracklisting and further info click here. Did you notice the tl is symmetric again?
September, 08: "Gunjou hiyori" release
TJ's debut single "Gunjou hiyori" (Ultramarine weather) has been released today, and it immediately leapt up to #1 position of the Oricon chart. What a great start for Tokyo Jihen! For infos about the release, visit the "discography" section; to see screencaptions from the PV, click here.
SITE UPDATES
December 8: discography
I've added pages for the upcoming album, single and DVD. You can also find a page about the previous iTunes single Karisome Otome.
August 6: discography
I've added a new page for the upcoming DVD and the latest PV collection.
March 12: lyrics page update
I've added all the romaji lyrics for the latest album "Otona". Be sure to check them out and sing along with Ringo!
December 16: discography and members update
I've added a page for Adult to the Discography and updated the Shuraba page with the results from the Oricon chart. I've also changed the members' pictures with some high quality ones.
September 25: members and discography update
The profile of the new members are now up in the members section. I've also added a page for Shuraba in the discography section.
September 05: members and discography update
Small update for the members profiles. Some informations about Tokyo Jihen's DVDs ("Tokyo Incidtens Vol.1", "Dynamite In!" and "Dynamite Out!") are finally available in the discography section. I've also corrected some mistakes in the translations, thanks to mahogany_h00r for signaling them in our forum!
December, 09: discography and lyrics update
The videos are back online.
I've also added all the romaji lyrics from "Kyouiku".
November 25: discography update
Updated the pages of the singles "Gunjou Hiyori" and "Sounan". "Kyouiku" album and "Tokyo Incidents Vol.1" DVD pages added.
October, 03: discography and lyrics update
The albums, singles and analog sections of the discography are back online. Videos are coming soon!
I've also started translating lyrics into English. You will find a T next to the song title in the Lyrics section when its translation is available.
September, 25: out-of-order notice
Too bad, the discography section seems to be working unproperly. So, I'll have to put it offline for a while until I correct the html mistakes that appear to be the cause of this inconvenient. It should be back online in a week, maybe less. I'm really sorry.
September, 20: site opening
Here we begin! We hope this site will grow more and more, offer you the best informations and insights about Shiina Ringo and Tokyo Jihen, and get your
support!