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Friction

Japanese rock band (1978-)
Organization musical_group Q5503421
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Friction

Summary

Friction is a musical group[1]. Friction ranks in the top 7% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (167 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Friction's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Friction's genre is jazz[4].
  • Friction's genre is punk rock[5].
  • Friction's country of origin is recorded as Japan[6].
  • Friction comprises Tatsuya Nakamura[7].
  • 1978 marks the founding of Friction[8].
  • Friction's official website is recorded as http://friction-officialsite.com/[9].
  • Friction's start of work period is recorded as 1978[10].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[11]

  • Country: JP[12]

  • Began / founded: 1978[13]

  • Genre(s): alternative rock, art punk, no wave, noise rock, post-punk, punk rock[14]

  • Community tags: alternative rock, art punk, j-punk, no wave, noise rock, post-punk, punk rock[15]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 48134b75-f310-47b5-9876-706495dfa748[16]

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Founding

1978 marks the founding of Friction[8].

Why It Matters

Friction ranks in the top 7% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (167 views/month).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Friction. Retrieved May 3, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/friction-q5503421
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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_friction-q5503421_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Friction}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/friction-q5503421}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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