Mariah Receives Key to the City of Osaka, Japan (MariahCarey.com)
Mariah recently visited Universal Studios in Osaka, Japan where she brought a bit of joy to some of the local underprivileged children and was presented with the Key to the city of Osaka by the Mayor.

Below is some of the local press from the event:

DAILY SPORTS
"Mariah Invites Underprivileged Children to Universal Studios Japan" American diva Mariah Carey visited Universal Studios Japan in Osaka and announced her charity project "Mariah Dream Kids" inviting 1,250 underprivileged children from 16 institutions in Osaka. Mariah was greeted by 3 children representing the institutions in the presence of over 5,000 fans. The children gave Mariah a giant charmbracelet in honor of her Charmbracelet World Tour.

NIKKAN SPORTS
"Mariah - Charity at USJ";
Mariah Carey, in the midst of her Japan Tour, visited USJ in Osaka to announce her charity program inviting 1,250 children from the city's institutions.

SUNDAY SPORTS
"Mariah Invites 1,250 Children to USJ" "Mariah thrilled by giant charmbracelet presented by children"

HOCHI
Mariah Visits USJ Mariah comments, "I appreciate the warm welcome in Osaka, I'm honored to be here. I Love you all!"

CHUNICHI
Mariah Invites Institution Kids to USJ! "The Mayor of Osaka Appreciates Diva's Charity"

SPORTS NIPPON
Mariah In USJ;
"Mariah's Charity Activity - Promises to Invite Kids to USJ" As part of her charity activities, popular American singer Mariah Carey visited USJ in Osaka to announce her plan to invite 1,250 underprivileged children to USJ.

Review by Tlc
We arrived at Osaka Jo hall at about five and there was a small crowd sitting around. At 5:15, people started to queue up at the stairs leaading towards the hall...we had no idea what was going on. Annoucements were made but we understand NO japanese!
We found out it was a queue to buy charmbracelet concert souvenirs. There were T-shirts (5-6 different designs), I bought a t-shirt, a bag, and 2 programs. There were also posters, phone chains and they were selling THE REMIXES CD which is released today.
At first, some hip hop music was playing and then the same opening acts as in Korea, those three kid acts... can't remember their names. The young girl who sang a song called "Automatic Princess" was cute though. The song was something about gleaming tiaras and hello kitty slippers.

After the opening acts the light came on again and Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely" was playing on the speakers.
Two more Stevie songs and then the concert started. Same as in Korea, Moulin Rogue! inspried intro with "Looking In". Mariah walked in from the right side of the audience setting off a frenzy. She sang "Heartbreaker Remix / Original" followed by "Dreamlover", then "Through The Rain".
She sounded pretty good on Through The Rain". Basically she did the same songs as in Korea, except she did NOT do "You Got Me" and "Vision of Love".
Instead she sang "Always Be My Baby" and for the encore "All I Want For Christmas Is You".

She wore the same clothes as in Korea too. Trey did "Friend of Mine" as well.
One thing that especially kewl was the intoduction of the band... she did this song (I don't know the title but she has never sang it before) and changed the lyrics to introduce the band and there were many many funny bits like she was introducing the pianist Lionel Cole and she sang something like "Thank god it aint me".
For "I Know What You Want", she only came out when she did the solo part (she also did Busta's part... the part that goes "I'll cry with you") and for the rest of the song there were only dancers on the stage and she actually changed into that harley davidson top just for that 20 seconds on stage and then she went off and changed again for the next song!

The dancers and set changes were frequent in the first half, they had the cabaret dancers and the puppet-clown strung from a string thing but in the second half it kinda stopped and Mariah was singing most of the songs without any dancers or set changes, got kind of boring visually except the second encore which was "All I Want For Christmas Is You" where the dancers came out dressed as santa clauses and some were walking on stilts. For hero, she did go in the crowd like she did for her last 2 world tours.