Hello, J-Canuck here, and just into the 2nd year of this blog, I would like to welcome a couple of new contributors: JTM from Hawaii and nikala from Toronto. Both of them have been reading and commenting for the last few months on various postings I have written, and so I invited them up here to see if they would like to post some of their favourites.
JTM has already gotten one up for Meiko Nakahara(中原めいこ) and nikala will soon have her post up for a Momoe Yamaguchi(山口百恵) classic.
I also extend an invitation to a couple of other commenters (if they have the time and interest): jarteaga obregon and bode1967 to post up some of their favourite songs from the world of kayo kyoku and J-Pop.
I've been a fan of Japanese popular music for 40 years, and have managed to collect a lot of material during that time. So I decided I wanted to talk about Showa Era music with like-minded fans. My particular era is the 70s and 80s (thus the "kayo kyoku"). The plus part includes a number of songs and artists from the last 30 years and also the early kayo. So, let's talk about New Music, aidoru, City Pop and enka.
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I would like to give credit where credit is due. Videos are from YouTube and other sources such as NicoNico while Oricon rankings and other information are translated from the Japanese Wikipedia unless noted.
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