Details Behind miwa’s Nationwide Tour and Upcoming Album Revealed

Details behind a new nationwide tour hits the streets as miwa fans await her upcoming album dropping in stores this February.

A brand new album, titled SPLASH☆WORLD, is hitting shelves on February 22nd as the diminutive miwa looks to fortify her hold over the Japanese market with a nationwide tour shortly thereafter in April. The nationwide tour, which kicks off on April 22nd and 23rd at Nippon Gaishi Hall and wraps up on June 17th and 18th at Saitama Super Arena. The nationwide tour brings miwa to Nippon Gaishi Hall, Marine Messe Fukuoka, Xebio Arena Sendai, Osaka-jo Hall, Yokohama Arena, and Saitama Super Arena.

miwa ARENA tour 2017 “SPLASH☆WORLD”

Saturday, April 22 – Nippon Gaishi Hall (Aichi)
Sunday, April 23 – Nippon Gaishi Hall (Aichi)
Saturday, May 6 – Marine Messe Fukuoka (Fukuoka)
Saturday, May 13 – Xebio Arena Sendai (Miyagi)
Saturday, June 3 – Osaka-jo Hall (Osaka)
Sunday, June 4 – Osaka-jo Hall (Osaka)
Sunday, June 11 – Yokohama Arena (Kanagawa)
Saturday, June 17 – Saitama Super Arena (Saitama)
Sunday, June 18 – Saitama Super Arena (Saitama)

Miwa, stylized as miwa, is a Japanese singer and songwriter born in Hayama, Kanagawa who moved to Tokyo with her family at a young age. miwa began writing songs at 15 and began to teach herself how to play the guitar after she entered high school, but gave up and paid for professional lessons after discovering she wasn’t making much progress on her own. Although her high school had a ban on students holding part-time jobs she secretly held a job and used the savings to buy a Gibson J-45 guitar by Sophomore year. miwa was signed by Sony Music Entertainment Japan during her third year of high school and made her show-business debut in 2010 with the singleDon’t Cry Anymore, which was used as the theme song for the drama Nakanai to Kimeta Hi a few years later while attending Keio University.

The single was a minor commercial success, breaking the top 20 on Oricon’s single charts and being certified by the RIAJ as selling 100,000 full length cellphone downloads a month after its release. In April 2010, the song won the award for best drama theme song at the 64th The Television Drama Academy Awards. miwa released her second single, “Little Girl,” in late June. Her third single, “Change,” was the twelfth opening theme song for the Bleach anime, and was a top 10 single. miwa released her first album Guitarissimo on April 6, 2011 which was scheduled to release a week earlier on end of March but was delayed due to the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and its aftereffects. Guitarissimo marked miwa’s best overall performance on the Oricon charts reaching the top spot and making history as the first Heisei period-born solo singer to reach a No. 1 on the album charts in the history of the Oricon.