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Gibson Chairman and CEO Henry Juszkiewicz presented Dark Fire to Tak Matsumoto, Japan’s biggest rock star and one of the world’s foremost guitarists, at Gibson Japan’s event on Dec. 20, 2008 to celebrate the opening of its new Tokyo headquarters in Ginza.

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