Daisuke Inoue, known as inventor of karaoke, stands in front of his 2004 Ig Nobel peace prize, awarded from Harvard-affiliated science humor magazine the ``Annals of Improbable Research,'' at his office in Nishinomiya city near Osaka, Japan, Tuesday. Inoue first got the idea for a karaoke machine in 1971 when he was 31 years old.Nov 22, 2004

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