Nihongo Notes

JPopJapan.com Relaunches!

I quickly realised that building a database of artists on my own was too much work! So after speaking with Nick over at JapanSoc.com I decided to relaunch JPopJapan.com as a social bookmarking site. It’ll cover any genre of Japanese music from the high-pitch JPop girl groups to the screaming JMetal bands and everything in [...]

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YUI

YUI is another of my favourite Japanese musicians. She’s very talented; playing the guitar and piano as well as having a great voice. She’s also cute!

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Asian Kung-Fu Generation

Asian Kung-Fu Generation (アジアン・カンフー・ジェネレーション), or "Ajikan" (アジカン) for short, were the first Japanese rock band I came across in my search for Japanese music. My favourite songs are 君という花 ("Kimi to iu Hana" / "a flower named after you") and アンダースタンド ("Andāsutando" / "Understand"). The title of the latter is amusing because, well, I don't understand any of the lyrics yet! However I can appreciate good rock music and they are one of my top 5 favourite bands.

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