ABOUT
Uday
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Conversations, Collaborations, Resonance, and Rebirth.
Bring back the hype, “RADIO SAKAMOTO Uday”, presented by J-WAVE's RADIO SAKAMOTO, happening live in Shibuya.
With the aim of transforming Shibuya into an international hub for art and technological innovation, “DIG SHIBUYA” teams up with J-WAVE and Digital Garage to push the boundaries of music. Casting the ever-evolving district as a symbolic “Future City,” we tune in to the sounds reverberating through its streets—an ever-shifting spectrum of FUTURE SOUND.
For 20 years, Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952-2023) captivated listeners with his landmark program, RADIO SAKAMOTO. Inheriting and expanding his vision, we present the tribute event “RADIO SAKAMOTO - Uday,” the first step in a new dialogue with Sakamoto's spirit.
J-WAVE will curate the music and words born from this fresh context, broadcasting them from Shibuya—both on-site as a live experience and on the airwaves as a special radio show.
The essence of Tokyo's pop culture. Japan's pride and global icon: RYUICHI SAKAMOTO. The story he engraved continues—starting here, starting now.
- What's RADIO SAKAMOTO?
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A program hosted by Ryuichi Sakamoto as its navigator, broadcast every two months on J-WAVE from 2003 to 2023.
In 2024, it returned as a special program titled “J-WAVE SELECTION RADIO SAKAMOTO extension ‘Nagadenwa' (Long Phone Call),” featuring artists and creators deeply connected to Sakamoto. His spirit and philosophy continue to live on through their contributions.
- PROFILE
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Ryuichi SakamotoRyuichi Sakamoto has lived many musical lives in his nearly 70 years. As a keyboardist and songwriter in Haruomi Hosono’s Yellow Magic Orchestra, he helped set the stage for synthpop. His solo experiments in fusing global genres and close studies of classical impressionism led to him scoring over 30 films in as many years, including Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence, Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Emperor and The Sheltering Sky, and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s The Revenant. In the past 20 years alone, he’s written a multimedia opera, turned a glass building into an instrument, and travelled to the Arctic to record the sound of melting snow. That exploratory spirit runs through Sakamoto’s 2017 album, async, which paints an audio portrait of the passing of time informed by his recovery from throat cancer. “Music, work, and life all have a beginning and an ending,” said Sakamoto in early 2019. “What I want to make now is music freed from the constraints of time.”
RADIO SAKAMOTO Uday
NEW CONTEXT FES × DIG SHIBUYA
- Date and time
- Friday, February 13, 2026, 18:00 OPEN / 23:00 CLOSE
- Venue
- Spotify O-EAST / duo MUSIC EXCHANGE / AZUMAYA
- Fee
- ¥ 8,800 (Tax Included)
- Inquiry
- HOT STUFF PROMOTION
050-5211-6077
