Showing posts with label Motoki Funayama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Motoki Funayama. Show all posts
Friday, August 14, 2026

Atsuko Nina -- Apple Tea to Peanuts（アップルティーとピーナッツ）

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  I have to admit that I've not come across the combination of apple tea and peanuts before although I've enjoyed both of them sepa...
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Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Toshihiko Tahara -- Kimi ni Barabara...to Iu Kanji（君に薔薇薔薇…という感じ）

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  Geez...looking at the Toshihiko Tahara（田原俊彦） file, the lad's been showing up on a lot of ROY articles over the past year or so but his...
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Saturday, April 18, 2026

Nami Shimada -- Pastel Blue no Tameiki（パステル・ブルーのためいき）

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  Welcome to another KKP weekend. It's a little chillier if also a little humid, so I'm more than happy to be typing this while the ...
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Monday, March 9, 2026

Kenichi Mikawa -- Ikiru（生きる）

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  On last week's extended "Uta Con" （うたコン） episode, enka singer and TV personality Kenichi Mikawa（美川憲一） appeared for the first...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Minako Honda -- Aoi Shuumatsu（青い週末）

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  I've said it before and I'll say it again. If my first encounter of 1980s aidoru Minako Honda（本田美奈子） hadn't been that horribly...
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Friday, September 26, 2025

Tomiko Kobayashi -- Kono Hi no Ame wo Wasurenai（この日の雨を忘れない）

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  It was only recently that I discovered that singer-songwriter Tomiko Kobayashi（小林登美子） had unfortunately died in 2022 at the age of 52. My ...
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Saturday, May 31, 2025

Momoe Yamaguchi -- Club Sandwich wa Ikaga? （クラブ・サンドウイッチはいかが？）

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  The whole family went out last night for dinner and we had it at a Swiss Chalet not too far away. As a bit of a change from my usual choi...
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Monday, March 31, 2025

Nami Shimada -- Makenaide...Kataomoi（負けないで...片想い）

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  KKP contributor Jari Lehtinen was the first one to get the Nami Shimada（島田奈美） file rolling when he wrote about the late 1980s aidoru'...
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Friday, March 28, 2025

Machiko Watanabe -- Tokimeki no Toki（ときめきの時）

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  After so many years of focusing on City Pop in all its iterations spanning a few decades, I confess that I still have a soft spot for th...
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Sunday, November 24, 2024

Midori Kinouchi -- Hitotsuki Okure no Christmas（ひと月おくれのクリスマス）

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  Midori Kinouchi's（木之内みどり） time in the aidoru limelight only consisted of a brief four years from 1974 to 1978 . However, she does have...
Friday, November 1, 2024

Machiko Watanabe -- Midnight（ミッド・ナイト）

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  Midnight in Japan for me was illustrated by a tired old English teacher finally reaching his apartment past 12 am after a long commute fr...

Yuko Asano -- Potsuri Potsuri（ぽつりぽつり）

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  Back in August , I covered the B-side of Yuko Asano's（浅野ゆう子）October 1977 single . The song was called "Sunset Seaside" （サンセ...
Monday, October 14, 2024

Kenji Sawada -- Nikumi Kirenai Rokudenashi（憎みきれないろくでなし）

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From imdb Admittedly, this is a bizarre reference to start things off for this song by Kenji Sawada（沢田研二） , but I remember watching the ani...
Friday, October 4, 2024

Yutaka Ishio -- Onna ni Juku shite Kaettekina（オンナに熟して帰ってきな）

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  Happy Friday! I've mentioned this before whenever we get into the City Pop frame of mind on this day of the week, but it seems as if...
Monday, September 30, 2024

Toshihiko Tahara -- Harajuku Kiss（原宿キッス）

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Marie-Sophie Mejan via Wikimedia Commons Harajuku in the old days Late last night, I received an email from my friend of some 30 years' ...
Saturday, September 21, 2024

Hiroshi Madoka -- Musician（ミュージシャン）

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  Y'know...I'm just a few weeks shy of twelve years since I first posted singer-songwriter Hiroshi Madoka's（円広志） "Musoubana...
Sunday, September 15, 2024

Masamitsu Tayama -- Ai Suru Koto kara Hajimetemimasen ka（愛することから始めてみませんか）

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  It's a warm and sunny Sunday out there so perhaps something folksy and relaxing would be nice. I found this folk song by singer-songwr...
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Saturday, September 7, 2024

Junko Sakurada -- Kimagure Venus（気まぐれヴィーナス）

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  Ahhh...those fresh-faced 1970s aidoru tunes with the engine of an upbeat studio orchestra propelling the teenyboppers into stardom! One of...
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Saturday, August 31, 2024

Machiko Watanabe -- Hold Me Tight（ホールド ミー タイト）

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  I guess the lyric "hold me tight" has been used in so many kayo kyoku probably going back to the 1960s that it was only a matt...
Wednesday, August 21, 2024

Jun Horie -- Yume Fubuki（夢吹雪）

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  Singer-songwriter Jun Horie（堀江淳） has always kept a special place in the "Kayo Kyoku Plus" heart all these years. His April 1981...