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	J-pop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Japanese stores typically divide their music into 4 sections: J-pop, Enka (a traditional form of ballad), classical, and English/International.
		While she sold millions with her RandB sounds, pop music was still popular in Japan with solo female singers such as Hamasaki Ayumi, Kuraki Mai and Ami Suzuki, and female pop groups like SPEED and Morning Musume sold millions of records with their pop-techno sounds.
		The current charts are mainly ruled by male only bands and solo male singers, female pop has declined a lot since the 90's but pop singers like Hamasaki Ayumi and Otsuka Ai still get to #1 with most of their releases.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/J-Pop (1507 words)

	Encyclopedia: Japanese music
		There are four main kinds of Japanese folk songs (min'you): work songs, religious songs (such as sato kagura, a form of Shintoist music), songs used for gatherings such as weddings, funerals, and festivals (matsuri, especially Obon), and children's songs (warabe uta).
		In min'you, singers are typically accompanied by the 3 stringed lute known as the shamisen, taiko drums, and a bamboo flute called shakuhachi.
		These are traditional Japanese instruments, but modern instrumentation, such as electric guitars and synthesizers is, also used this day in age, when enka singers cover traditional min'you songs (Enka being a Japanese music genre all its own...).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Japanese-music (2064 words)

	Duty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Japanese had about the same number of aircraft, but theirs were better, and their pilots had more experience.
		Pops was soon aboard the lifeboat and later transferred to the Reuben James *2.
		Japanese who had been thrown off Kaga in the earlier engagement swam to the American torpedo and used it as a life raft.
	users.dslextreme.com /~wolfstone/Passion/pops.html (2397 words)

	facts JPN-music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One of the characteristic features of Japanese culture is the way in which the cultural elements of a variety of lands exist side by side in harmony, exerting a constant influence on the existing culture and thus producing a new culture as a result.
		The first significant development in the history of Japanese music took place in the Heian Period (794-1192 A.D), While Japanese music which had been popular among common people was being sophisticated, all kinds of music from various Asian countries In the previous two centuries were being assimilated and modified, acquiring distinct Japanese characteristics.
		Japanese musicians themselves are per forming overseas frequently and are achieving a growing international reputation.
	asnic.utexas.edu /asnic/countries/japan/japmusic.html (2737 words)

	Japanese music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		During the 1970s, the Japanese government allocated funds to preserve Japanese culture, and manycommunity taiko groups were formed.
		There are four main kinds of Japanese folk songs (min'yo): work songs, religious songs (such as sato kagura, a form of Shintoist music),songs used for gatherings such as weddings and funerals, and children's songs (warabe uta).
		The rise of disposable pop has been linked with thepopularity of karaoke, leading to much criticism that both trends are consumerist and shallow.
	www.therfcc.org /japanese-music-250315.html (1529 words)

	booniverse: Japanese Snack Food Review: Cool World (ice pops)
		I was going to split this up by general texture of a Cool World freezy pop and then go and describe the different flavors but I found out that each flavor had a slightly different texture.
		It's surprisingly not as sweet as someone might expect a pop to be if said pop had Fructose, Glucose, Liquid Sugar, and Sugar as its first four ingredients.
		The pink had a much smaller crystalline freezy pop structure than its American counterpart, which meant that you could bite down on it and not have it shatter into ice shards.
	141.214.84.74 /~jeannie/archives/000372.html (612 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Japanese art
		Japanese artist Takashi Murakami poses for a portrait at the Blum allery in Los Angeles, during the exhibition of works by Chiho Aoshima, Saturday, May 28, 2005...
		Japanese art collector Tashi Hashiyama was unable to decide which of the prestigious auction houses should handle his collection, which featured works by Picasso, Van Gogh and Cezanne.
		Japanese art, fashion, toys and most notably music leapt to the forefront of hipster culture and gave American rockers a reason to try.
	art.surfwax.com /files/Japanese_art_Art.html (4452 words)

	Japanese Rock: A Dream Waiting to Come True
		While a few Japanese bands, such as Cibbo Matto, Shonen Knife and Pizzicato Five have established themselves as permanent fixtures on America's cult alter of underground sound, Japanese pop-music (called "J-Pops" in Japan) has yet to make an impression on the mainstream American music scene.
		Too many Americans still believe in the hilarious myth that the Japanese are good at copying and refining but lousy at inventing.
		The fact of the matter is that the Japanese music industry is the second largest in the world (next to you-know-who) and far more domestic albums are sold in Japan than imports from American and other countries combined.
	www.thesimon.com /magazine/articles/old_issues/0026_japanese_rock_dream_waiting_come_true.html (2351 words)

	Korean Youth: South Korea takes a taste of Japanese pop culture
		SEOUL - Ayako Ogawa was a typical Japanese teen-ager with a dream of becoming a pop star when she went to a talent agency in Tokyo for a singing audition two years ago.
		She sings in Circle, a group formed by South Korean and Japanese talent agencies to take advantage of a new willingness on the part of the South Korean government to accept Japanese popular culture.
		South Korean music fans looking for Japanese pop music still can buy compact discs and videotapes only on the fl market, but recent steps of cultural access point to possible further warming between the two societies.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /eas/newsfile/koryouth/990125-nw.htm (1634 words)

	GAIA
		Government promotion and funding of Japanese incinerator projects abroad is a blatant disrespect to the ongoing efforts by the global community to reduce and eliminate releases of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) to the environment.
		The Stockholm Convention on POPs, which Japan has already ratified, calls for the "minimization with the ultimate goal of elimination" of 12 priority POPs, four of which are by-products of waste combustion: dioxins, furans, hexachlorobenzene and polychlorinated biphenyls.
		Constructing new incinerators in Japan or offshore is akin to creating new sources of POPs and thus violates the spirit and purpose of the Convention, denying the people their right to a healthy environment and a sustainable future.
	www.no-burn.org /action/broga2let.html (868 words)

	ENKA
		Japanese spontaneously use melisma in their songs, not only for folk songs but also for pops when they sing at Karaoke.
		Not only melody and arrangement sound American but also the pronunciation of Japanese text is made as if it is American.
		In a sense new Japanese pops have their audience in whole Asia as middle class is growing everywhere and in any country the feeling of middle class young people is similar.
	www.okada.de /archive-japanasitis/enka/enka.html (637 words)

	Jokes » Japanese Jokes
		A young Japanese girl had been taught all of her life that when she married, she was to please her husband and never upset him.
		Four corporate presidents, one English, one French, one Japanese and one American, were on their way to an international business conference when they were kidnapped by terrorists and taken to a secret hideout.
		It was the first day of school and a new student, the son of a Japanese businessman, entered the fourth grade.
	www.desi-jokes.com /category/japanese/page/2 (1683 words)

	Rokabiri (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Early Japanese pop stars were quite a motley crew; not uncommon were such strange east/west hybrids as Izumi Yukimura's recording, "Hi no Tama Rock" (1958), in which Ms.
		The Japanese rockers also established themselves as youth fashion leaders, and soon groups of leather-jacked, pompadoured Japanese greasers, called rokabiri zoku (rockabilly tribe), were to be seen hanging out on the streets of Japan's cities.
		Japanese rock and roll, for the time being, faded away, to be replaced by idoru kashu (idol singers) - clean-cut, wholesome pop performers, whose images were carefully manufactured by the country's talent agencies.
	home.earthlink.net /~glenn_mariko/rokabiri.htm (590 words)

	Directory - Regional: Asia: Japan: Arts and Entertainment: Contemporary: Music
		Japanese Channel · With galleries, MP3s, and wallpapers, such as X-Japan, Hide, L'Arc~en~Ciel, Luna Sea, Glay, Gackt, Shazna, Speed, Max, and Namie Amuro.
		Nihon no Pops · Japanese Pop from the 1950s to the 1990s.
		Japanese Idol Photo Gallery · A photo collections from magazines and pictures, including Noriko Sakai and Emiri Nakayama.
	www.incywincy.com /default?p=122892 (503 words)

	Tour Log - Toxic Free Asia Tour
		UK: 23 persons got inside the Japanese Embassy, including four "prisoners" bound and gagged (with a gag bearing the Japanese flag) and a ball and chain on their ankles.
		LEBANON: Activists in Lebanon took action before the Japanese Embassy in Yarze (East Beirut) delivering a message to the authorities of the hazards of waste combustion and calling for the release of the four activists detained in Japan.
		NETHERLANDS: Activists descended on the Japanese embassy in the Hague where, the Executive Director of Greenpeace International, Thilo Bode and Greenpeace Netherlands Director demanded the release of the Greenpeace activists.
	archive.greenpeace.org /toxics/toxfreeasia/updates/may15pictures.html (747 words)

	Sandcastle V.I. - The Fabulous Ventures - Album Reviews
		Their old Japanese record label (Toshiba-EMI) continued to release CDs in its series of mono and stereo versions of the same albums on a single disc.
		I know the Japanese releases are hard to find and expensive by usual standards, but if you want to hear the Ventures at their latest and at their best, get this one.
		The Japanese audience, as always, is very polite, keeping absolutely quiet during the songs and clapping appreciatively after each number.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /ventures/ventrev.htm (6870 words)

	Nolans Christmas Pops In Japan Japan CD ALBUM (5313)
		The term 'obi-strip' is derived from the name of the piece of wide fabric - the obi - that a geisha woman wears around her waist over the traditional Kimono dress.
		Japanese CD albums often benefit from extra music and new video-style content, to further entice the Japanese public to buy their native release and not an import.
		Japanese pressings will nearly always include a lyric booklet or fold-out lyric sheet.
	eil.com /shop/moreinfo.asp?catalogid=5313 (730 words)

	Yoshikazu Mera (Counter-tenor) - Short Biography
		He was pretty good at singing, so he wanted to be a pop singer in his childhood.
		Pop singers in the past needed more strength in their singing than singers today.
		When he was at university, Yoshikazu Mera learned about classical music and changed from tenor to counter-tenor during his third year in college when he was a junior.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/Mera-Yoshikazu.htm (403 words)

	JAPANESE MUSIC
		However, many distinct styles and innovative artists play folk and classical music, much of it very intense, and others play distinct forms of rock, electronica, hip hop, punk rock and country music.
		The Okinawan Champluse, along with Carol, RC Succession and Harada Shinji were especially famous and helped define the genre's sound.
		In the 1980s, the Southern All Stars became the biggest band in Japanese rock's history, and inspired alternative rock bands like Shonen Knife & the Boredoms and Tama & Little Creatures.
	www.websters-online-dictionary.org /definition/JAPANESE+MUSIC (1336 words)

	Asia-Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Explanations of Japanese cultural traits and resulting culture shock facing westerners.
		Japanese customs, trivia, food, photos, wordbooks, and world penpal books.
		Japanese pop music, slang Japanese, high school life, Harajuku fashion and QandA.
	www.asia-links.com /sina/directory/directory.asp?folderid=8724 (136 words)

	UnEarthed Archive :: News :: David Lee Roth To Perform With The Boston Pops Orchestra ::. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Former VAN HALEN frontman David Lee Roth will be performing with The Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra at this year's "Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular" Independence Day concert in Boston, to be broadcast live from the Charles River Esplanade via the CBS television network.
		Roth is scheduled to perform his hits "California Girls" and "Jump" with the Boston Pops under the direction of conductor Keith Lockhart.
		Pops conductor Lockhart told the Boston Globe that it "just didn't come together, but Steve Tyler and I were talking, and we want to make it happen at some point."
	www.unearthed.com /news/2004/06/0000033957.shtml (236 words)

	Popular Japanese Music on Almondnet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bilingual Japanese and foreigners in Japan can search for jobs in Japan, including English teaching and managerial positions.
		Learn how to deduct your trip on your taxes as a business expense by joining (for $199) the Japanese downline of a major US MLM company marketing in Japan.
		Japanese music - Find and compare features and specs from the best shops through Kelkoo UK.
	www.ncpm.co.uk /popmusic/popular_japanese_music.html (366 words)

	Ginger was my idea, claims Japanese boffin - Operating Systems - Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
		Japanese inventor lays claim to the two-wheeled scooter that will change the world...
		Just as the brouhaha around Ginger was threatening to die down, a Japanese professor pops up and claims it was his idea all along.
		Kazuo Yamafuji claims he had been working on the design of the two-wheeled scooter in 1986 as part of a student research project.
	www.silicon.com /software/os/0,39024651,11029941,00.htm (396 words)

	The Japan Times Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		French, Italian and Japanese cooking are all concerned about how to keep the freshness of the ingredients.
		YMO is kind of the Japanese Kraftwerk, using Japanese melodies and computers.
		He was also interested in me as a Japanese composer, about how a Japanese composer can make music like a Brazilian but a Brazilian cannot make music like a Japanese.
	www.japantimes.co.jp /cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?fm20030924a1.htm (2253 words)

	the of mirror eye
		The band is pretty much a modern day version of the Sun Ra Arkestra, with free jazz freakouts mixed with funky grooves, mixed with the blues, mixed with theatrics.
		The Monkees were a band created by the studio and promoted by a TV show.
		Masaki Batoh, leader of Japanese psychedelic band Ghost, goes deep inside himself and comes out with an amazing musical vision.
	ofmirroreye.net /blog (1955 words)

	An American Tean Discovers Japanese Pop
		Being knowledgeable about pop music -- the creators of it and their musical creations alike -- is one way to maintain popularity among friends.
		But I stayed up alone, continuing to watch; Japanese TV was such a new experience for me. Surfing through the channels, I finally came upon something that attracted my attention.
		There is a definitive style that really appeals to me. Their pop is filled with a bit more rhythm and conveys a livelier feeling to the listener.
	www.frugalfun.com /jpop.html (1285 words)

	Hotel Listings & Destination Guide for Asia - Japan
		Japanese composers like Ryuchi Hattori picked up on the trends with the shuffle-rhythm inspired Tokyo Boogie Woogie, even managing a shamisen version.
		In the 1950s, Japanese Latin music was established, although its roots were laid down at least twenty years previously.
		Japanese pops mirrored all the Western moves - Beatles imitators, rock, folk-rock, folk and psychedelia were all flavour of the day.
	www.eztrip.com /dg_viewLocation_formId-70690.html (610 words)

	Starlight Pops, a shrine to the Sailor Starlights! Celebrating five years of good, clean, old-fashioned, gender-bending ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Starlight Pops, a shrine to the Sailor Starlights!
		Welcome to Starlight Pops, a shrine to the three femme fatale Sailor Starlights from the planet Kinmoku.
		The Sailor Starlights are a trio of characters who appear in the fifth and final season of the popular Japanese anime/manga series Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon.
	www.kinmoku.net /pops (161 words)

	International Arts, Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Debbie's Jpops Lyrics Song lyrics by popular jpops (Japanese Pops) artists in both kanji and romaji.
		Letras y mas Lyrics to many Spanish pop and rock songs.
		Bobmink - Japanese Song Translation English translated lyrics, romaji and original Japanese lyrics to some popular Japanese songs.
	www.assnofcoachtraining.org /dGFjdF8yNzk3MTM=.aspx (468 words)

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