- Title: JAPAN: SINGER JANET JACKSON ARRIVES IN TOKYO ON HER WORLD TOUR
- Date: 12th January 2002
- Summary: TOKYO, JAPAN (JANUARY 16, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) ( * BEWARE FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY **) SMV JANET JACKSON ARRIVING FOR J-WAVE RADIO SHOW AND WAVING AT FANS WIDE OF FANS CLAPPING/WATCHING JANET SMV FANS VARIOUS, JACKSON AUTOGRAPHING GIANT PHOTO VARIOUS, JANET JACKSON STANDING BY AUTOGRAPHED PANEL MORE OF FANS WIDE OF JANET APPEARING ON RADIO SHOW/ PRESS CONFERENCE SCU (SO
- Embargoed: 27th January 2002 12:00
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- Location: TOKYO AND OSAKA, JAPAN
- Country: Japan
- Topics: Entertainment
- Reuters ID: LVA7YZ5R9A0XU1BC7VV4305AI573
- Story Text: American pop diva Janet Jackson has made an appearance at a record store in Tokyo on the Japan leg of her world tour.
Hundreds of fans gathered at the HMV outlet in Tokyo's trendy Shibuya district to get a glimpse of Janet Jackson who came to a studio within the store on Wednesday (January 16) for a radio interview by a local station.
Jackson is currently halfway through a concert tour of Japan which is part of a world tour that was disrupted by the September 11 attacks on the United States.
As fans waved hats and magazines with Jackson on the cover, the diminutive mega-star answered questions ranging from her exercise regime to what she has been doing in Tokyo in her free time.
"I don't know, I don't know, I've been bad in maybe the last few months. I hadn't worked out at all and I just got back to working out since I came out here to Japan," said the 35-year-old when asked by a DJ how many sit ups she could do.
"We did sit-ups here yesterday. I don't know, honestly I don't know, however many Tony our trainer tells me to do, I do," said Jackson who was wearing a black top which showed off her muscular midriff.
Her latest album "All for You", which shocked some of her long-term fans with its sexually explicit lyrics, has even been banned by the authorities in Singapore -- considered by some to be a key measure of cool for any artist.
At her two-hour concerts Jackson dances non-stop flanked by dancers, but she still slips out to local clubs afterwards although she hardly ever dances to her own songs.
"The dancers, they'll pull me back up to get me to dance to my own song, but I've only danced to my song (at clubs) once, just last year. (DJ asking "Which song?") "All for You", in London, I think it was. I sat down and they all started pulling me," she said.
Jackson arrived early last week and has already done two concerts in the western city of Osaka and will do two more in Tokyo later this week. She and her dancer friends have been to local clubs, but Jackson says she has yet to go shopping.
"We were supposed to, actually, this morning. Kelly who is one of the dancers and is one of my good friends and Gill who is one of my best friends who is also a dancer, but we got in so late last night some of us didn't get up until four o'clock in the afternoon, so no," she said. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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