Japanese business daily erroneously says Fuji Rock Festival canceled

May 23, 2020 | News On Japan

May 23, 2020 (Kyodo) - A Japanese business daily apologized Friday after it erroneously reported that this year's Fuji Rock Festival, one of the largest outdoor music events in Japan, has been canceled.

According to The Nihon Keizai Shimbun, it posted a story with the headline "Cancelation of Fuji Rock means summer without a rock festival, reform seen unavoidable to music business" on its website past midnight Thursday.

The daily, commonly known as Nikkei, said in the story that the organizers of the Aug. 21 to 23 festival "announced cancelation," but the date of the purported announcement was marked with a black circle, a sign it would be filled in later, as the story had apparently been prepared for a possible cancelation.

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