Despite what you may have heard, karaoke isn’t Japanese for “tone deaf.” The word is a portmanteau of the Japanese kara, or “empty,” and oke, the shortened form of okesutora, meaning “orchestra.” But ...

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Let’s raise a toast to the inventor of karaoke, the late great Japanese engineer Shigeichi Negishi. He devised the first karaoke machine in 1967, the “Sparko Box.” This invention changed the ...