BEIJING (Reuters): Japanese jazz musician Yoshio Suzuki and his band were in the midst of a sound check for some long-awaited performances in Beijing when the venue was visited by plain-clothes police on Thursday afternoon.
"After less than one minute, the venue owner came to me and said the police told him all concerts with Japanese people are cancelled - and there is no discussion," said Christian Petersen-Clausen, a Norwegian concert promoter and documentary filmmaker who has lived in China for 13 years.
About a dozen concerts with Japanese musicians in major
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