Asiatic Collector

[chuckmoy]

I contacted David about getting a specific asian section added, since there is few information about Asian machines and records in general, I thought it would be good to discuss it here.

[m_nakamura]

Frick yeah!! Now I'll have a place to post all my J-pop and postwar jazz!!

[epigramophone]

This new section is a welcome addition to the forum.
I have six Japanese Columbia records, mainly Western dance music, which came with my G-208 portable.
Three have bi-lingual labels, but the remaining three are in Japanese.
If anyone here can translate these Japanese labels I would be grateful and will post pictures.

Meanwhile here is my G-208, purchased from the grand-daughter of the original owner who purchased it new in Singapore.
He and the gramophone made it back to the UK just before Singapore fell.

[m_nakamura]

Woah cool!! Do you have pics of the records?

In the 1950's a lot of records in Japan were both English & Japanese in one song.

[Starkton]

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I contacted David about getting a specific asian section added, since there is few information about Asian machines and records in general, I thought it would be good to discuss it here.
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My suggestion for the section heading would be "Japanese & Asian Machines".

[shoshani]

This is amazing! And while I don't have any Japanese 78s at the moment (I had about half a dozen Columbias as a kid, including the Neopolitan folk song "Vieni Sul Mar" in Japanese), I love the records and a lot of the machines are ingeniously designed and built. Looking forward to more of this section.

[m_nakamura]

That's awesome!! Are you also from Japan?

[Carl]

I suppose this is thr right place to post a pic or two of this Japanese phonograph I recently acquired. Along with a bunch of records that came with it, is this record. Google translate says it means "Patriot Song". Check out the Japanese Mitsubishi Zero graphic on the underside of the lid.