Author: Taro Mitsuoka

R&B/HipHop

Key of Life : A Hip-Hop creator from the near future

2025-07-30 Taro Mitsuoka 6801 Views 0 Comments Key of Life

Key of Life suddenly

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1990’sEPOCH

JPop-018: The First Rise of J-Pop and Karaoke

2025-07-30 Taro Mitsuoka 8316 Views 0 Comments B'ｚ,  Chisato Moritaka,  Fishmans,  Key of Life,  Miliyah Kato,  Motoharu Sano,  My Little Lover,  Nanase Aikawa,  Original Love,  pizzicato five,  PUFFY,  Spitz,  Toshinobu Kubota,  TRF,  Ulfuls,  UNICORN

J-Pop experienced it

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2000’sEPOCHRock/Blues

JPop-034 : Indie rock special from Around the Year 2000

2025-07-30 Taro Mitsuoka 14085 Views 0 Comments Breath Mark,  CAVE,  CONDOR 44,  GOOD 4 NOTHIN,  honeydip,  Indierock,  Missile Girl Scoot,  MIX MARKET,  NUMBER GIRL,  Quruli,  Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her,  Stompin' Bird,  youjeen

In the early 2000s,

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Folk/AcousticSONGS

Off Course : Message songs with beautiful harmonies

2025-07-30 Taro Mitsuoka 8014 Views 0 Comments Off Course

Off Course was a gro

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AOR/City-PopsSONGS

Minako Yoshida : Her songs are timeless and never grow old.

2025-07-29 Taro Mitsuoka 7122 Views 0 Comments Brecker Brothers,  David Sanborn,  Minako Yoshida

Minako Yoshida&#8217

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1980’sEPOCHJazz/Latin

J-Pop – 066: The First Fusion Boom in Japan

2025-07-29 Taro Mitsuoka 7728 Views 0 Comments Casiopea,  Char,  CREATION And Kazuo Takeda,  Fusion Jazz,  Himiko Kikuchi,  Jun Fukamachi,  Katsuhisa Hattori & Ongakubatake Orchestra,  Kazumi Watanabe,  Ken Muramatsu,  Kenji Omura,  Masayoshi Takanaka,  Naniwa Express,  Ryudogumi,  Ryuichi Sakamoto & the Kakutougi Session,  Sadao Watanabe,  T-Square,  Yuji Ohno (You & Explosion Band)

The genre known as &

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1960-70’sEPOCH

J-Pop-043: 70’s Soft Rock

2025-07-29 Taro Mitsuoka 7879 Views 0 Comments Akai Tori,  Hide To Rosanna,  Higurashi,  Hitomi Shimatani,  Kyoko Koizumi,  Kyu Sakamoto,  Mike Maki,  Novo,  Pedro & Capricious,  Ryoko Moriyama,  Seri Ishikawa,  Soft Rock,  Toi et Moi,  Tsunehiko Kamijo & Rokumonsen

The term “J-Po

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THE BEATLES

Discovering J-Pop Through the Beatles

2025-07-29 Taro Mitsuoka 1176 Views akiko,  Char,  Chikuzen Sato,  HIS,  Kazuo Zaitsu,  Masayoshi Yamazaki,  Michiyo Azusa,  The Alfee,  The Bad Boys,  The Beatles,  The Red Album,  Tokyo Beatles

In this submenu, I w

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PopsSONGS

Kazumasa Oda : High-pitched voice that reaches the hearts of people of all ages

2025-07-29 Taro Mitsuoka 1684 Views 0 Comments Kazumasa Oda

Kazumasa Oda’s caree

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2020’sEPOCH

JPop-161 : Generation Z Suggests the Future of J-Pop

2025-07-29 Taro Mitsuoka 8387 Views 0 Comments Chiaki Satō,  Friday Night Plans,  Fujii Kaze,  GenerationZ,  iri,  Kenta Dedachi,  KIRINJI,  mabanua,  MANON,  Mime,  Nulbarich,  Rina Sawayama,  SANABAGUN.,  Shin Sakiura,  Suchmos,  SUKISHA,  TAMAO IJIMA,  TENDRE,  Tôko Miura,  YONA YONA WEEKENDERS

Although we’re

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