There is this Japanese music video that gained high valuation by overseas viewers. It is a video for a song titled “Mushi no Tameiki (Bug’s Sigh)” sung by Handsome…

K-POP (Korean Pop) has been really popular in the past several years. First boy’s groups including TVXQ, BIGBANG, and 2PM. Now Japan is crazy about girl’s groups such as KARA…

  “Sound Horizon” is a Japanese musical group strongly influenced anime. Calling themselves “genso band (fantasy band)”, they create songs that have stories themes fantasy, legend, history, war and romance….

  Playing over 100 kinds of music instruments and un-music instruments, Shugo Tokumaru, a Japanese singer song writer, does recording to mixing all alone. Since his debut album “Night Piece”…

  If you like pop dance music, you should try Perfume, a Japanese girl technopop group. The members are three girls from Hiroshima Prefecture; Ayano Omoto nicknamed “Nocchi”, Yuka Kashino…

  On March 22, the winners of the 2010 Space Shower Music Video Awards were announced. This award was held by Japanese music TV channel, Space Shower TV to decide…

      This is the chart of “songs that cheers me up” surveyed by TSUTAYA online. In this chart, let me introduce a little bit of each song’s lyric…

In the past few years, the trend in Japanese music industry has been changing. In the 90’s, Western pop music sold more than Japanese pop music; however, the sales reversed,…