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Aizubange
is a town located in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
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Aki Yashiro
, real name Akiyo Masuda (増田明代 Masuda Akiyo) (born Akiyo Hashimoto (橋本明代 Hashimoto Akiyo) on August 29, 1950), is a Japanese enka singer and painter.
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Akina Nakamori
is a Japanese pop singer and actress.
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Akira Kobayashi
is a Japanese actor and singer.
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Amami Ōshima
is one of the Satsunan Islands, and is the largest island within the Amami archipelago between Kyūshū and Okinawa.
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Anime News Network
Anime News Network (ANN) is an anime industry news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, video games, Japanese popular music and other related cultures within North America, Australia, South East Asia and Japan.
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Ayako Fuji
(real name, née), born May 10, 1961, is a Japanese enka singer.
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B minor
B minor is a minor scale based on B, consisting of the pitches B, sharp, D, E, sharp, G, and A. Its key signature consists of two sharps.
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Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net.
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Bass guitar
The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.
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Bon Festival
or just is a Japanese Buddhist custom to honor the spirits of one's ancestors.
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Boogie-woogie
Boogie-woogie is a musical genre that became popular during the late 1920s, but developed in African-American communities in the 1870s.
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Chang Hsiu-ching
Chang Hsiu-ching (born 28 May 1970) is a Taiwanese Hokkien pop singer known for her love songs.
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Chen Ying-git
Chen Ying-Git, is a female singer of Taiwanese Hakka heritage.
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Chiyoko Shimakura
(30 March 1938 – 8 November 2013) was an enka singer and TV presenter in Japan.
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Cho Yong-pil
Cho Yong-pil (born March 21, 1950) is a South Korean pop singer who is considered one of the most influential figures in Korean popular music.
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Chris Hung
Chris Hung (born 19 March 1963) is a Taiwanese enka and Hokkien pop singer.
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Degree (music)
In music theory, scale degree refers to the position of a particular note on a scale relative to the tonic, the first and main note of the scale from which each octave is assumed to begin.
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Drum kit
A drum kit — also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums — is a collection of drums and other percussion instruments, typically cymbals, which are set up on stands to be played by a single player, with drumsticks held in both hands, and the feet operating pedals that control the hi-hat cymbal and the beater for the bass drum.
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Eiko Segawa
is a Japanese female enka singer and actress.
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Elvis Presley
Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.
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Filipinos
Filipinos (Mga Pilipino) are the people who are native to, or identified with the country of the Philippines.
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Frank Nagai
Frank Nagai (フランク 永井; March 18, 1932 – October 27, 2008) was a Japanese singer.
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Freedom and People's Rights Movement
The (abbreviated as) was a Japanese political and social movement for democracy in the 1880s.
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Fuyumi Sakamoto
is a Japanese female enka singer under EMI Music Japan.
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Google Books
Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.
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Great Hanshin earthquake
The, or Kobe earthquake, occurred on January 17, 1995 at 05:46:53 JST (January 16 at 20:46:53 UTC) in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, known as Hanshin.
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Group Sounds
Group Sounds, often abbreviated as G.S. or G-Sound, is a genre of Japanese rock music which became popular in the mid to late 1960s and initiated the fusion of Japanese kayōkyoku music and Western rock music.
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Guitar
The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.
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Hachiro Kasuga
, born Minoru Watabe, was a Japanese enka singer.
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Harumi Miyako
is a Japanese singer of enka. Born Harumi Kitamura (Kitamura Harumi) in Kyoto, she made her debut in 1964.
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Haruo Minami
Haruo Minami (三波春夫 Minami Haruo, July 19, 1923 – April 14, 2001) was an enka singer in postwar Japan.
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Haruo Oka
, real name, was a Japanese ryūkōka singer. He studied music as an enka-shi or a street musician. At that time, he was encouraged by Taro Shoji in Ginza. He signed with King Records in 1938. He debuted with song "Kokkyō no Haru" (国境の春, lit. "Spring at the Border") in 1939. He married Kiyoko Okuda in 1940. In 1944, during the Pacific War, he was dispatched to Ambon Island, but soon returned due to sickness. After the war, his popularity grew, and he starred in Akogare no Hawaii kōro with Hibari Misora. However, he never performed at the Kohaku Uta Gassen partly because he attached importance to live performances.
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Hibari Misora
was a Japanese singer, actress and cultural icon.
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Hideo Murata
was a Japanese rōkyoku and enka singer.
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Hiroe Yuki
(15 November 1948 – 7 September 2011 in Tokyo) was a Japanese badminton player.
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Hiroshi Itsuki
is a Japanese singer and composer.
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Hiroshi Takeshima
is a Japanese enka singer.
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Hiroshi Uchiyamada and Cool Five
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Hitomi Shimatani
is a Japanese pop singer signed to the Avex Trax label.
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Hokkaido University
, or, is a Japanese national university in Sapporo, Hokkaido.
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Hokkien pop
Taiwanese pop (台語流行音樂), Tai-pop, T-pop, Minnan Pop and Taiwanese song (台灣歌), is a C-pop genre sung in Taiwanese Minnan and produced mainly in Taiwan.
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Ikue Asazaki
is a Japanese folk singer.
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India
India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.
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Indonesia
Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.
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J-pop
J-pop (often stylized as J-POP; ジェイポップ jeipoppu; an abbreviation for Japanese pop), natively also known simply as, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s.
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JANJAN
JANJAN, short for Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures, was a Japanese online newspaper started by Ken Takeuchi, journalist and former mayor of Kamakura, Kanagawa.
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Japan
Japan (日本; Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 or Nihon-koku, lit. "State of Japan") is a sovereign island country in East Asia.
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Japan Composer's Association
The Japan Composer's Association, or JACOMPA (日本作曲家協会 in Japanese) is an organization of Japanese composers, established in 1959.
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Japan Music Awards
for outstanding achievements in the Broadcast Music Producers Federation, was major music awards show held annually in Japan from 1969 to 1993.
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Japan Record Awards
is a major music awards show that recognizes outstanding achievements in the Japan Composer's Association in a manner similar to the American Grammy Awards, held annually in Japan.
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Japanese Americans
are Americans who are fully or partially of Japanese descent, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics.
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Japanese idol
In Japanese pop culture is a term typically used to refer to young manufactured stars/starlets marketed to be admired for their cuteness.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.
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Jero
Jerome Charles White, Jr. (born September 4, 1981), better known by his stage name, is an American enka singer of African-American and Japanese descent.
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Jody Chiang
Jody Chiang or Jiang Hui, born Jiang Shuhui, is a Taiwanese popular singer.
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Johnny & Associates
is a Japanese talent agency, formed by Johnny Kitagawa in 1962, which trains and promotes groups of male entertainers known as.
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Junko Akimoto
is a Japanese kayōkyoku singer.
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Kabuki
is a classical Japanese dance-drama.
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Kanjani Eight
is a seven-member Japanese boy band from Japan's Kansai region.
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Kaori Mizumori
(born 31 August 1973, Kita, Tokyo) is a Japanese enka singer with Tokuma Japan Communications.
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Karaoke
Karaoke, is a form of interactive entertainment or video game developed in Japan in which an amateur singer sings along with recorded music (a music video) using a microphone.
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Kawa no Nagare no Yō ni
, meaning Like the Flow of the River, is the last single recorded by Japanese enka singer Hibari Misora, as she died soon after its release in 1989.
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Kawachi ondo
Kawachi Ondo (河内音頭) is a kind of Japanese folk song that originates from Yao City in the old Kawachi region of Japan, now part of modern-day Osaka Prefecture.
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Kayōkyoku
is a Japanese pop music genre, which became a base of modern J-pop.
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Kazuo Chiba
Kazuo Chiba (千葉和雄 also T.K. Chiba; February 5, 1940 – June 5, 2015) was a Japanese Aikido teacher and founder of Birankai International.
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Kazuo Funaki
is a Japanese Enka singer.
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Kōhaku Uta Gassen
, more commonly known as simply Kōhaku, which official translation is "Year-end Song Festival", is an annual music show on New Year's Eve produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK and broadcast on television and radio, nationally and internationally by the NHK network and by some overseas (mainly cable) broadcasters who buy the program.
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Kōjō no Tsuki
is a Japanese song written in the Meiji period.
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Kōji Tsuruta
, better known by his stage name, was a Japanese actor and singer.
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Kōtarō Satomi
(born 28 November 1936) is a Japanese actor from the city of Fujinomiya, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.
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Keiko Fuji
(5 July 1951 – 22 August 2013), known primarily by the stage name was a Japanese enka singer and actress.
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Kenichi Mikawa
is a Japanese singer and TV personality, known for his outspoken views and style.
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Kimono
The is a traditional Japanese garment.
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King Records (Japan)
is a Japanese record company, founded in 1931 as a division of Japanese publisher Kodansha.
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Kita no Yadokara
is a song by Japanese enka singer Harumi Miyako.
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Kiyoko Suizenji
, better known as, is a Japanese enka singer and actress represented by Suisei Kikaku.
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Kiyoshi Hikawa
is a Japanese enka singer who was born on September 6, 1977 in Minami-ku, Fukuoka, Japan.
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Kiyoshi Maekawa
(born) is a Japanese singer and tarento.
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Kumoemon Tochuken
(October 25, 1873 – November 7, 1916) was a popular rōkyoku recitalist in Meiji Japan.
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Kunio Naitō
is a retired Japanese professional shogi player who achieved the rank of 9-dan.
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Kyu Sakamoto
was a Japanese singer and actor, best known outside Japan for his international hit song "Ue o Muite Arukō" (known as "Sukiyaki" in English-speaking markets), which was sung in Japanese and sold over 13 million copies.
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Kyushu Railway Company
The, also referred to as, is one of the constituent companies of Japan Railways Group (JR Group).
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Malaysia
Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia.
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Masahiro Nakai
is a Japanese television host, actor, newscaster, radio personality.
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Masako Mori (singer)
is a Japanese idol, enka singer, and actress.
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Masao Koga
was a Japanese composer and guitarist known for creating melodies, and a pioneer of Japanese popular music.
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Masuiyama Daishirō II
Masuiyama Daishirō (born 16 November 1948 as Noboru Sawada) is a former sumo wrestler and coach from Hyōgo, Japan.
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Maya Sakura
is an enka singer and child actress.
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Meiji period
The, also known as the Meiji era, is a Japanese era which extended from October 23, 1868, to July 30, 1912.
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Meiko Kaji
is a Japanese actress and singer.
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Melisma
Melisma (Greek:, melisma, song, air, melody; from, melos, song, melody, plural: melismata) is the singing of a single syllable of text while moving between several different notes in succession.
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Michiya Mihashi
Michiya Mihashi (三橋美智也 Mihashi Michiya, November 10, 1930 – January 8, 1996), born Michiya Kitazawa (北沢 美智也 Kitazawa Michiya) in Kamiiso, Hokkaidō, was a famous enka singer in postwar Japan.
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Min'yō
is a genre of traditional Japanese music.
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Mina Aoe
, professionally known as, was a Japanese female enka singer who had a series of popular hits in the late 1960s and continued charting late into her career.
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Misaki Iwasa
is a former member of the Japanese idol group AKB48 and enka singer.
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Miyuki Kawanaka
Miyuki Kawanaka (川中美幸), December 5, 1955) is a very popular and respectable Japanese enka singer, with a singing career spanning over 4 decades. She is married to Katsuo Yamada since 1991. Miyuki Kawanaka was born Kimiko Kawanaka in Suita, Osaka. At a young age, she moved to Osaka where she grew up. In 1973, at the age of 18, she debuted as Kasuga Harumi and tried to become a pop idol with the release of with the songs Shinjuku Tenshin and Kantsubaki no Shima Kara. Both singles failed and she returned to Osaka to work at her mother's okonomiyaki restaurant. In 1976, she won a contest singing Anatani Inochi Gake. She adopted a new stage name Miyuki Kawanaka and launched her second debut as an enka singer. It was not until 1980 that Miyuki hit it big with the single Futarizake (ふたり酒), with sales over a million copies. Miyuki scored her second biggest hit, Niren-sou (二輪草) in 1998, which was also sold more than a million copies in Japan alone, spending 80 weeks in the top 100 of the oricon chart. Up to date, Miyuki Kawanaka has been invited to perform at the annual NHK Red and White Song Festival for 24 non-consecutive years, the 7th most on the all time list for a female artist. Her last appearance at the prestigious programme was 2011, the 62nd edition of the show.
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Morning Musume
, formerly simply and colloquially referred to as, is a Japanese female idol group, holding the second highest overall single sales (of a female group) on the Oricon charts as of February 2012, with the Oricon record of most top ten singles with an amount of 64, and they have sold over 21 million copies in Japan alone.
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Music of Japan
The music of Japan includes a wide array of performers in distinct styles both traditional and modern.
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Music of Taiwan
The music of Taiwan reflects the diverse culture of Taiwanese people.
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Nana Mizuki
is a Japanese voice actress and singer represented by the agency Sigma Seven.
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Naomi Chiaki
, is a Japanese singer and actress who worked from the late 1960s to the early 1990s.
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NHK
is Japan's national public broadcasting organization.
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Nikkan Sports
is the first-launched Japanese daily sports newspaper founded in 1946.
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Nikkei Business Publications
, commonly known as, is a book and magazine publisher based in Tokyo, Japan.
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Nippon Columbia
, often pronounced Korombia,, is a Japanese record label founded in 1910 as.
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Nippon TV
, doing business as Nippon TV, is a television network based in the Shiodome area of Minato, Tokyo, Japan and is controlled by the Yomiuri Shimbun publishing company.
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Nishinippon Shimbun
The is a Japanese language daily newspaper published by the.
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Okinawa Island
is the largest of the Okinawa Islands and the Ryukyu (Nansei) Islands of Japan.
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Onna no Michi
is the debut single by Shiro Miya & Pinkara Trio released on May 10, 1972 in Japan.
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Onyanko Club
was a large all-girl Japanese pop idol group in the 1980s.
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Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan.
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Otojirō Kawakami
was a Japanese actor and comedian.
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Overseas Chinese
No description.
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Oyoge! Taiyaki-kun
is a song by Japanese singer Masato Shimon, released by Canyon Records (now Pony Canyon) on December 25, 1975.
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Pentatonic scale
A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to the more familiar heptatonic scale that has seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).
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Piano
The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700 (the exact year is uncertain), in which the strings are struck by hammers.
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Pitch (music)
Pitch is a perceptual property of sounds that allows their ordering on a frequency-related scale, or more commonly, pitch is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.
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Rapping
Rapping (or rhyming, spitting, emceeing, MCing) is a musical form of vocal delivery that incorporates "rhyme, rhythmic speech, and street vernacular", which is performed or chanted in a variety of ways, usually over a backbeat or musical accompaniment.
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Rōkyoku
Rōkyoku (浪曲; also called naniwa-bushi, 浪花節) is a genre of traditional Japanese narrative singing.
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Record label
A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.
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Rentarō Taki
was a pianist and one of the best-known composers of Japan.
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Rimi Natsukawa
is a Japanese singer.
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Risa Yoshiki
Risa Yoshiki is a Japanese gravure idol and singer.
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Ritsu and ryo scales
The ritsu and ryo scales are anhemitonic pentatonic scales -- five-note scales without semitones -- used in a type of Japanese Buddhist chant called shōmyō.
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Rock music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.
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Rockabilly
Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South.
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Ryūkōka
is a Japanese musical genre.
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Ryukyu Islands
The, also known as the or the, are a chain of islands annexed by Japan that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni the southernmost.
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Saburō Kitajima
is a well-known Japanese enka singer, lyricist and composer.
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Sachiko Kobayashi
, born on December 5, 1953 in Niigata, Japan, is a female Japanese enka singer and occasional voice actor.
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Santa Lucia
"Santa Lucia" is a traditional Neapolitan song.
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Saori Hara
is a former Japanese AV idol, model and actress who has also used the name and most recently.
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Sarbjit Singh Chadha
Sarbjit Singh Chadha (born June 17, 1952 in New Delhi, India) is an Indian singer, who is said to be the first non-Japanese enka singer.
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Saxophone
The saxophone (also referred to as the sax) is a family of woodwind instruments.
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Sayuri Ishikawa
, (born January 30, 1958) is one of the most recognized and successful Japanese enka singers of all time, with a remarkable singing career spanning over four decades since mid-70s.
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Sentimental ballad
Sentimental ballads, also known as pop ballads, rock ballads or power ballads, are an emotional style of music that often deal with romantic and intimate relationships, and to a lesser extent, war (protest songs), loneliness, death, drug abuse, politics and religion, usually in a poignant but solemn manner.
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Shakuhachi
The is a Japanese longitudinal, end-blown bamboo-flute.
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Shamisen
The, also, both words mean "three strings", is a three-stringed traditional Japanese musical instrument derived from the Chinese instrument sanxian.
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Shōmyō
is a style of Japanese Buddhist chant, used mainly in the Tendai and Shingon sects.
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Shōwa period
The, or Shōwa era, refers to the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of the Shōwa Emperor, Hirohito, from December 25, 1926 until his death on January 7, 1989.
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Shinichi Mori
is a Japanese male enka singer and composer, who also sings folk and pop music.
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Shinobu Otowa
is a Japanese enka singer.
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Shiro Miya
was a Japanese enka singer, lyricist and composer.
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Shogi
(), also known as Japanese chess or the Game of Generals, is a two-player strategy board game in the same family as chess, chaturanga, makruk, shatranj, janggi and xiangqi, and is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan.
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Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia.
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Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.
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Soul Flower Union
Soul Flower Union, also known as SFU, is a Japanese musical group that incorporates Asian styles and world music styles into a rock and roll band.
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Sukiyaki (song)
is a Japanese-language song that was performed by Japanese crooner Kyu Sakamoto, and written by lyricist Rokusuke Ei and composer Hachidai Nakamura.
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Sumo
or sumo wrestling is a competitive full-contact wrestling sport where a rikishi (wrestler) attempts to force another wrestler out of a circular ring (dohyō) or into touching the ground with anything other than the soles of his feet.
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Taishō period
The, or Taishō era, is a period in the history of Japan dating from July 30, 1912, to December 25, 1926, coinciding with the reign of the Emperor Taishō.
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Taiwan under Japanese rule
Taiwan under Japanese rule is the period between 1895 and 1945 in which the island of Taiwan (including the Penghu Islands) was a dependency of the Empire of Japan, after Qing China lost the First Sino-Japanese War to Japan and ceded Taiwan Province in the Treaty of Shimonoseki.
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Taiwanese Hokkien
Taiwanese Hokkien (translated as Taiwanese Min Nan), also known as Taiwanese/Taiwanese language in Taiwan (/), is a branched-off variant of Hokkien spoken natively by about 70% of the population of Taiwan.
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Takao Horiuchi
is a Japanese pop and enka singer.
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Takashi Hosokawa
, born 細川貴志 (Hosokawa Takashi) on 15 June 1950, Makkari, Abuta District, Hokkaidō, Japan) is a Japanese enka singer. In 1975, he debuted with the song "Kokoro Nokori". Hosokawa immediately became one of the most popular enka and pop singers in Japan. He took part in the Kōhaku Uta Gassen for 32 consecutive years, but he was finally forced to reject NHK's offer in 2007 due to the Enten controversy.
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Takuro Yoshida
is a Japanese male singer-songwriter.
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Tango music
Tango is a style of music in 4 time that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay (collectively, the "Rioplatenses").
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Tanimura Shinji
(born 11 December 1948) is a Japanese singer-songwriter.
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Teen idol
A teen idol is a celebrity with a large teenage fan-base.
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Teichiku Records
Teichiku Records is a Japanese record label, run by the Teichiku Entertainment company, that specialises in enka, kayōkyoku, and similar music.
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Teresa Teng
Teresa Teng (29 January 1953 – 8 May 1995) was a Taiwanese singer.
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Teruhiko Saigō
is a Japanese singer and actor.
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Thailand
Thailand, officially the Kingdom of Thailand and formerly known as Siam, is a unitary state at the center of the Southeast Asian Indochinese peninsula composed of 76 provinces.
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The Japan Times
The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.
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Toshiba
, commonly known as Toshiba, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
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Trombone
The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family.
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Trot (music)
Trot (Hangul: 트로트), also known by the onomatopoetic term ppongjjak (Hangul: 뽕짝), is a genre of Korean pop music, known for its use of repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.
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Trumpet
A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
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Tsugaru-jamisen
Tsugaru-jamisen (kanji: 津軽三味線, hiragana: つがるじゃみせん) or Tsugaru-shamisen (hiragana: つがるしゃみせん) refers to both the Japanese genre of shamisen music originating from Tsugaru Peninsula in present-day Aomori prefecture and the instrument it is performed with.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan.
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Vanesa Oshiro
is a Nikkei enka singer born in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Vibrato
Vibrato (Italian, from past participle of "vibrare", to vibrate) is a musical effect consisting of a regular, pulsating change of pitch.
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Violin
The violin, also known informally as a fiddle, is a wooden string instrument in the violin family.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Yasushi Akimoto
is a Japanese record producer, lyricist, and television writer, best known for creating and producing some of Japan's top idol groups, Onyanko Club and the AKB48 franchise.
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Yōko Nagayama
Yōko Nagayama (長山洋子 Nagayama Yōko; born January 13, 1968) is a Japanese enka singer, former J-pop singer, and actress.
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Yeh Hsien-hsiu
Yeh Hsien-hsiu (born 1 June 1948) is a Taiwanese politician and singer.
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Yomiuri Shimbun
The is a Japanese newspaper published in Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major Japanese cities.
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Yoshi Ikuzō
is the stage name of, a Japanese famous enka singer-songwriter.
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Yoshimi Tendo
, better known as, is a Japanese enka singer.
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Yoshio Tabata
was a Japanese ryūkōka and enka singer, songwriter, and electric guitarist.
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Yujiro Ishihara
was a Japanese actor and singer born in Kobe.
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Yuki Maeda
is a former Japanese enka singer within Hello! Project.
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Yukio Hashi
is a Japanese Enka singer and an actor.
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Yuko Nakazawa
is a Japanese pop and enka singer, and actress, best known as one of the original members of the all-female J-pop group Morning Musume.
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Yume wa Yoru Hiraku
is a Japanese song.
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Yutaka Ooe
is a Japanese enka singer.
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12th Japan Record Awards
The 12th Japan Record Awards took place at the Imperial Garden Theater in Chiyoda, Tokyo, on December 31, 1970, starting at 7:00PM JST.
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15th Japan Record Awards
The 15th Annual Japan Record Awards took place at the Imperial Garden Theater in Chiyoda, Tokyo, on December 31, 1973, starting at 7:00PM JST.
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16th Japan Record Awards
The 16th Annual Japan Record Awards took place at the Imperial Garden Theater in Chiyoda, Tokyo, on December 31, 1974, starting at 7:00PM JST.
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18th Japan Record Awards
The 18th Annual Japan Record Awards took place at the Imperial Garden Theater in Chiyoda, Tokyo, on December 31, 1976, starting at 7:00PM JST.
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24th Japan Record Awards
The 24th Japan Record Awards were held December 31, 1982.
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25th Japan Record Awards
The 25th Japan Record Awards were given in a ceremony held on December 31, 1983.
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48th Japan Record Awards
The 48th Annual Japan Record Awards took place at the New National Theatre in Shibuya, Tokyo, on December 30, 2006, starting at 6:30PM JST.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enka
