Fukushima Shiro

Fukushima Shiro started playing the acoustic guitar, influenced by folk singing when he was only 12 years of age. Later he started to play electric guitar, inspired after he listened to the song 1984 by Eddie Van Halen, which he felt was both an innovative and technical song.

In 1995, Fukushima arrived in Tokyo, and joined the musical unitNeppu-Ongakuichiba. Within two years, he performed solo at the Miwakuno Tokyo festival, playing a called Banana Beat. In 1998 he released an album with his band, Neppu-Typhon with Teitiku records.

Over the next two years, Fukushima released a second album Tokyo-jungle with his band Neppu-Typhon but then left the band soon afterward. It was not long before Fukushima jumped into a new band: Shiro's Nap, a group based solely off instrumentals and absent a formal vocalist.

Despite his work within his band, Fukushima continued his solo work and also contributed a song to the game "Phantom Crash" for Microsoft's XBOX.

It was not long before Fukushima began dabbling in new activities andy 2004 he joined the hard rock band Itani. The band had only one release,BETWEEN SHADOW&LIGHT on BG Records label in November of that year.

The following year, Fukushima released the album Painted Tones with his band Shiro's Nap; but his activity with the band would remain shaky and by 2006 it was announced that Shiro's Nap would disband.

After Shiro's Nap, Fukushima's activities also ceased within the music scene; it is unknown by fans if he will return to the scene in the future.