According to this entry on "Takehiro Gold Diary"（たけひろゴールド DIARY）via J-Wiki, Kenjiro Sakiya's（崎谷健次郎） 3rd album from April 1989, "Kiss of Life", is one of the first examples of a Japanese singer incorporating house music into an album.
Perhaps so, but not knowing too much about the various types of dance music from that time onwards, I will simply say that one of the tracks "Sen no Tobira" (A Thousand Doors) is still a percolating piece of late 1980s urban pop. With some rat-a-tat percussion launching things, the keyboards and bass come in fast and furious as singer and composer Sakiya relates the tale of a guy going through Heaven and Earth to find the love of his life, even opening a thousand doors, if need be (hence the title).
Lyricist Rinko Yuuki（有木林子）, who seems to have provided a lot of her work specifically for Sakiya, also gave the words to "Sen no Tobira" to form this epic story of search. Yuuki has been a friend of Sakiya's since high school which would explain the long relationship. Methinks that this could have been made into a TV show or perhaps an intense music video. As for "Kiss of Life", it peaked at No. 21 on the charts.
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