He had a great influence on Japanese pop and was awarded the People's Honor Award.

Following a trend within Japanese pop, the group makes use of English phrases within the music.

Japanese pop and rock music acts are also increasing in popularity amongst US listeners.

The roots of contemporary Japanese pop came later, with the wholesale creation of something called 'group sounds.'

Therefore, they returned to Japanese pop.

"Rain" is the seventeenth single by Japanese pop singer-songwriter Yui.

Japanese pop singer Aya Sugimoto's 1988 debut single was a cover version of the song.

Ms. MacMillan is referring to the explosion of Japanese pop and rock music.

But there is more to the current flowering of Japanese pop and rock than simply the sound of one collector collecting.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Japanese pop was polarized between urban kayō and modern enka.