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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 Tradional 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

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Sites in Music

Japanese Channel
With galleries, MP3s, and wallpapers, such as X-Japan, Hide, L'Arc~en~Ciel, Luna Sea, Glay, Gackt, Shazna, Speed, Max, and Namie Amuro.

Mirage
All about Luna Sea, L'Arc-en-ciel, Glay, and other J-rock bands. Has mp3s, real audio, fan pictures and art, lyrics/translations, and guitar chords.

J-Pop Station 2000
A collection of Jpop MP3s, updated frequently.

J-Pop Fan Club
BBS for J-Pop fans.

Famous Japanese
Large photo collections of current popular Japanese musicians, and performers.

JPop Lyric Station
Contains romanized Japanese lyrics of several J-pop songs.

Japan Mania
Jpop artists' websites and song collection, with new and old songs from Japanese singers.

Umichan's Japanese Artist Image Gallery
Image galleries of various Japanese artists including j-pop, j-rock, and anime singing seiyuu.

Icepoint
Extensive resource for jpop/jock/Jdrama contents and mp3s.

Centigrade-J (JPop)
Translations of newest JPop in English. Unique artist profiles and reviews.

Juice Music Magazine
Monthly bilingual music magazine from Tokyo, with interviews, reviews, previews, columns and artists from both the live band and club circuits.

Nihon no Pops
Japanese Pop from the 1950s to the 1990s.

J-Fan
Japanese entertainment directory, devoted to Jpop, anime, and video games.

Opera Japonica
Comprehensive coverage of opera in Japan; includes monthly schedules, reviews, interviews, international reports, and multimedia files.

Tokyo Indie Gig Guide
Calendar guide to live shows in Tokyo with information about venues and links. For Japanese and foreign indie-pop, Shibuya-kei, DJ, and other indie gigs.

Rushed Blue
Guide to several new J-rock and unsigned bands.

Japanese Women Composers
A collection of links and sources related to various Japanese women composers.

Improvised Music from Japan
Independent labels, upcoming concerts, and artists/groups including profiles, discographies, and interviews.

Resources on Musics
Listening guide, women in Japanese music, articles on popular music including enka, JPop, and karaoke, the national anthem, list of recordings, and a music journal.

Tokyo Weekender: Music
Music articles from the Tokyo bi-weekly publication for the English-speaking community.

Bandmasters Academic Society of Japan
Promoting Japanese band music. Activities and lecture on brass playing.

Oni to Sakura:
Jrock and Jpop site with mp3s, downloads, icons, graphics, layouts, winAMP skins, wallpapers, postcards, and lyrics.

Mognet Official Japanese Translation Group
Offers Japanese song translations, forum, and links.

The J-Rock Saga
Japanese rock and visual kei resources.

Jpop
Contains news, reviews, galleries, and special Japan features and photos.

Jrockish
JPop desktop wallpaper featuring artists ayumi hamasaki, dir en grey, gackt, and utada hikaru.

Mana Heaven
Forum that is not limited to Mana but also J-Pop and related subjects.

Fujisawa Symphony Orchestra
Includes schedule and history.

Anime and J-Rock Guitar Tabs
Guitar tabs for anime, videogames and various J-Pop and J-rock groups, such as X Japan and Luna Sea.

Sunboiled's
Features English-translated lyrics of Japanese songs.

J-POP Forum
Talk about the latest groups, Japanese concerts and make friends.

Color Me Blood Red
A small mp3 rotation/request site with mostly J-rock and other Japanese music.

Neko Boy
A fanlisting for Hitsugi, one of the guitarists of the Japanese rock band Nightmare.

Jpop Music UK
A Japanese pop music site providing music video downloads, gallery and forum sections.

Samishii Mimi
Find resources for electronic music, indie rock, and Shibuya Kei for a variety of Japanese artists including bios, discographies, and links.

Japanese Idol Photo Gallery
A photo collections from magazines and pictures, including Noriko Sakai and Emiri Nakayama.

The JRock Reservoir
JRock mp3s rotation weekly, with Dir en Grey, Miyavi, and Malice Mizer.

Project E/J
The J-Rock fan art archive. Featuring Luna Sea, Glay, L'Arc~en~Ciel, Dir en grey and various bands.

J-Addicted Gallery
Features a Japanese idol gallery, wallpapers, and forum.