Former NiceMom band members Berend, Tim and Mark might have decided to discontinue their punkrock-debut project, quitting all together was never an option. Truth be told they hadn't even grown tired of each others bad senses of humor, but something had to change. So Randy Sheep Ranch bass player Leon joines the group and relieves Tim from some of his guitar duties giving the band more freedom to articulate their music and venture new roads.
Whether slower, more mature or shorter, they honestly don't really care. For Japan is not a club of politicians on a mission nor is there really any plan. If anything, they hope to fill a piece of the gap between ego and pretence, two unfortunate and very common elements in modern music.
This doesn't mean these four Dutch guys haven't got anything to say, but freedom of speech opened the door to the white noise of useless opinions a long time ago and there really is no point in jumping that bandwagon. Even though there are plenty of problems, there never was any shortage of solutions either. For Japan won't save this world but when given the choice they'd rather fuck it up a little more anyway.
While not relying on mere intellect or blunt dissatisfaction about society, For Japan documents a plain and sober perspective on the world through puckrock songs that kindly lack the shove-it-down-your-throat mentality and rather give you a modest and honest slap in the face.
