News is circulating rapidly on overseas social media about a video of a Japanese female college student dancing naked—with her breasts jiggling—at a karaoke bar; the clip racked up over 100,000 views in no time. This is destined to become a source of lifelong embarrassment.
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Karaoke inventor earned nothing, having never obtained a patent.
In 1971, Daisuke Inoue—credited with inventing karaoke—devised a machine called the “8-Juke,” a simple assembly of a backing-track player, a microphone, and a coin box. Because the device was merely a combination of existing equipment, he did not apply for a patent; consequently, he was unable to profit directly from the global karaoke boom that followed. Nevertheless, he was awarded the Ig Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for “inventing karaoke, thereby providing an entirely new way for people to learn to tolerate each other,” and was named one of the “Asian Heroes” of the 20th century by Time magazine in 1999.



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