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For the first time ever Fuji Rock Festival, Japan’s biggest annual music event, has been cancelled because of corona virus pandemic, organizers revealed upsetting thousands of rock-and-roll fans. Last year, the event, held in the summer with 130,000 people attended the festival over four days.
The event included The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Cure and Kendrick Lamar.
The organizers said on their website- “We had hoped the pandemic would abate in time to hold this summer’s festival as scheduled and were moving forward with planning .We apologize for taking so long to inform everyone of this decision.”
“Fuji Rock” and “Complete Cancellation” were among the top-trending topics on Twitter after organizers made the announcement.
Though Japan lifted its state of emergency last month but strict in-bound travel restrictions remains and non-Japanese nationals are not allowed to country.
Japan has also been badly affected with around 18,000 infections and 900 deaths from the corona virus pandemic.
