"WATERBOMB JAPAN" music festival to be held in 4 cities this summer, featuring top K-pop artists and water gun battles.
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"WATERBOMB JAPAN" has been decided to be held again this year. This year's "WATERBOMB JAPAN" will be held in four cities. Fukuoka on July 13, Tokyo on 27th and 28th, Osaka on August 10, and Nagoya on August 17. "WATERBOMB" is a large-scale music festival held in Korea for the first time in 2015, where the audience and artists enjoy team battles using water guns. Last year, it landed in Japan and was first held in Tokyo and Nagoya. In the Japanese performance, a luxurious lineup of artists such as BIGBANG's D-LITE, KARA, 2PM's Nichkhun & Jun. K, SHINee's Taemin, GOT7's Yugyeom, Kim Hyuna, former Wonder Girls' Sunmi, EXO's Chanyeol & Sehun, ATEEZ, Park Jaebeom, "Sora & Moonbyul's unit" MAMAMOO+, IZ*ONE's Kwon Eunbi, HAON, Sik-K, BE'O, BIG Naughty, ASH ISLAND, GRAY, and Chanmina appeared. - [REPORT] Japan's first landing! "WATERBOMB" Nagoya performance was a great success... D-LITE also performed BIGBANG's big hit songs - [REPORT] SHINee Taemin, first visit to Japan after discharge! "WATERBOMB" Tokyo ended successfully... luxurious collaborations and first performance stages
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