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This category is for contemporary Japanese music, including jazz, rock, popular, and other modern forms of music.

Music involving traditional Japanese forms should be submitted to the Japanese Traditional Music category, or its most appropriate subcategory.

Please do not submit sites selling products in this category. Sites in Japan selling goods should be submitted to the Japanese Shopping category

日本語のホームページはこちら.

Subcategories

• Bands and Artists
• Christian
• Community Orchestras
• Enka
• Orchestras
• Record Companies
• Web Rings

Resources in This Category

• Anime and J-Rock Guitar Tabs

  http://www.angelfire.com/goth/arefreaky/anime-tabs.html
  Guitar tabs for anime, videogames and various J-Pop and J-rock groups, such as X Japan and Luna Sea.

• Fujisawa Symphony Orchestra

  http://orchestra.musicinfo.co.jp/~fujikyo/english.html
  Includes schedule and history. (English, Japanese)

• Improvised Music from Japan

  http://www.japanimprov.com/index.html
  Independent labels, upcoming concerts, and artists/groups including profiles, discographies, and interviews.

• J-Pop Fan Club

  http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JPOPfans/
  BBS for J-Pop fans.

• Jrockish

  http://jrockish.bravepages.com/
  JPop desktop wallpaper featuring artists ayumi hamasaki, dir en grey, gackt, and utada hikaru.

• Keikaku

  http://www.keikaku.net/
  Profiles and album reviews of independent and overlooked Japanese bands.

• Mognet Official Japanese Translation Group

  http://www.mognet.net/
  Offers Japanese song translations, forum, and links.

• Oni to Sakura:

  http://www.angelfire.com/goth/ots/
  Jrock and Jpop site with mp3s, downloads, icons, graphics, layouts, winAMP skins, wallpapers, postcards, and lyrics.

• Opera Japonica

  http://www.operajaponica.org/
  Coverage of opera in Japan; includes monthly schedules, reviews, interviews, international reports, and multimedia files.

• Sunboiled's

  http://sunboiled.tripod.com/
  Features English-translated lyrics of Japanese songs.

• Tokyo Gig Guide

  http://www.tokyogigguide.com/
  Guide to live shows in Tokyo with information about venues, bands and other useful information. For Japanese and foreign indie-pop, Shibuya-kei, DJ, and other indie gigs.

• Umichan's Japanese Artist Image Gallery

  http://www.angelfire.com/ca5/elf/
  Image galleries of various Japanese artists including j-pop, j-rock, and anime singing seiyuu.

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