Showing posts with label Toshinobu Kubota. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toshinobu Kubota. Show all posts
Friday, June 12, 2026

Toshinobu Kubota -- Dance If You Want It

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  Haven't seen J-funkster Toshinobu Kubota（久保田利伸） for a while. Hope he's doing fine wherever he is. From time to time, I come across...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Toshinobu Kubota -- Shogyou wa Mujou（諸行は無常）

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  "World Business Satellite" is a nightly TV Tokyo program (began in 1988 ) on the economy that I've often heard about. Howev...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2025

"Night" Songs

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  Over a decade ago, I came up with the KKP article "J-Canuck's Nighttime Playlist" which was composed of songs with a noctur...
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Wednesday, June 11, 2025

The Undokai（運動会）Songs in Honour of International Day of Play

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Wikimedia Commons by Tetsuro Kurata   It's another Hump Day this week and as has occasionally been the case, I like to put up an Author...
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Tuesday, April 8, 2025

Toshinobu Kubota -- So Beautiful

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  Haven't heard from J-R&B singer Toshinobu Kubota（久保田利伸） in a while, and if I'm not mistaken, he should be approaching his 40...
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Friday, September 20, 2024

Yoko Oginome -- Lazy Dance

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  Wow! I thought that this recording by YouTube channel City Pop Tokyo was so clean and new that I assumed it was an updated and slightly V...
Friday, May 31, 2024

Yutaka Kimura Speaks ~ Japanese City Pop Masterpieces 100: Toshinobu Kubota -- Natsu no Shigosen（夏の子午線）

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  Number: 060 Lyricist: Masumi Kawamura Composer: Toshinobu Kubota Arrangers: Toshinobu Kubota and Yoichiro Kakizaki From Kubota's 1992 ...
Friday, April 19, 2024

Toshinobu Kubota -- Natsu no Shigosen（夏の子午線）

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  I found this in the "Japanese City Pop Masterpieces 100" list at the back of Yutaka Kimura's "Japanese City Pop" ...
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Friday, November 4, 2022

Toshinobu Kubota -- Eien no Tsubasa（永遠の翼）

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  Although as I've come to realize over the years that R&B had been infusing into examples of Japanese music for many years before,...
Friday, September 16, 2022

Mizuki Koyama -- Oh! Daddy

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  It's been a couple of years since singer Mizuki Koyama（小山水城） has been up here so it's about time to bring in another song of hers....
Friday, July 8, 2022

Kyoko Koizumi -- NUDIST

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  A couple of months ago, when I was exploring Kyoko Koizumi’s ( 小泉今日子 ) extensive discography, one of the songs that quickly grabbed my at...
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Thursday, July 7, 2022

Miho Nakayama -- Mind Game

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Miho Nakayama’s ( 中山美穂 ) “CATCH THE NITE” album, which was released in February 1988, is a classic blend of aidoru and City Pop, thanks to ...
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Thursday, October 28, 2021

Toshinobu Kubota -- Somebody's Sorrow

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As much as Toshinobu Kubota（久保田利伸） was really funking it up in the 1990s, I think that I prefer his earlier years in the mid-1980s when he...
Thursday, September 9, 2021

AMAZONS -- Suna to Diamond（砂とダイヤモンド）

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  In July 2017 , I put up Yuko Ohtaki's（大滝裕子） first article featuring a song, "Koi no Warming Up" （恋のウォーミング アップ）, which contr...
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Friday, November 6, 2020

Casiopea -- What Can't Speak Can't Lie

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  I only wrote about fusion band Casiopea just a couple of weeks ago with their bouncy-as-heck "Living on a Feeling" from their ...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

Maiko Okamoto -- Fascination (album)

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Recently, I was able to listen to the 2nd of two original albums released by 1980s aidoru Maiko Okamoto（岡本舞子） , "Fascination" ...
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Sunday, June 14, 2020

Yoko Oginome -- Lazy Dance

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Yoko's manager: Hey, Yoko? Anri just called. She'd like her style returned right now. Just joking there. I'm sure that ...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Toshinobu Kubota -- Missing

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Going into Hump Day today. And although it's only January , it may go down as one of the Humpiest Days this year so far on hearing t...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

Toshinobu Kubota -- You Were Mine

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That must have been quite the time for the trendy dramas in the late 1980s when the young characters enjoyed an improbably luxurious lif...
Saturday, June 2, 2018

Hikaru Nishida -- Love is Changing

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Strangely enough, I was reminded of this song by 90s aidoru Hikaru Nishida（西田ひかる） while looking at the chat feed on Van Paugam's Cit...