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In Japan, music includes a wide array of distinct genres, both traditional and modern. The word for "music" in Japanese is 音楽 (ongaku), combining the kanji 音 on (sound) with the kanji 楽 gaku (music, comfort).^[1] Japan is the world's largest market for music on physical media^{[citation needed]} and the second-largest overall music market, with a retail value of US$2.7 billion in 2017.^[2]

Traditional and folk music

Gagaku, hougaku

The oldest forms of traditional Japanese music are:

• shōmyō (声明 or 聲明), or Buddhist chanting
• gagaku (雅楽), or orchestral court music

both of which date to the

Samurai listened to and performed these music activities, in their practices of enriching their lives and understanding.^[6]

Biwa hōshi, Heike biwa and goze

The biwa (琵琶 - Chinese: pipa), a form of short-necked lute, was played by a group of itinerant performers (biwa hōshi). The root of Biwa music was The Tale of the Heike.^[7] Biwa hōshi organized into a guild-like association. The biwa is Japan's traditional instrument.^{[citation needed]}

Lafcadio Hearn related in his book Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1903) "Mimi-nashi Hoichi" (Hoichi the Earless), a Japanese ghost story about a blind biwa hōshi who performs "The Tale of the Heike".^[7]

Blind women, known as

Modern ensemble taiko was invented by

Japanese folk songs (min'yō) can be grouped and classified in many ways but it is often convenient to think of five main categories:

• fisherman's work song, farmer's work song
• lullaby
• religious songs (such as
  Shintoist
  music)
• songs used for gatherings such as weddings, funerals, and festivals (
  matsuri, especially Obon
  )
• children's songs (warabe uta)

In

Many of these songs include extra stress on certain syllables as well as pitched shouts (kakegoe). Kakegoe are generally shouts of cheer but in min'yō, they are often included as parts of choruses. There are many kakegoe, though they vary from region to region. In Okinawa Min'yō, for example, the common "ha iya sasa!" appears. In mainland Japan, however, "a yoisho!," "sate!," or "a sore!" are more common. Others include "a donto koi!," and "dokoisho!"

Recently a

Okinawan folk music

Arrival of Western music

Japanese blues/Enka

After the Meiji Restoration introduced Western musical instruction, Izawa Shuji (a bureaucrat) compiled songs like "Auld Lang Syne".^[12] Two major forms of music that developed during this period were shōka, which was composed to bring western music to schools, and gunka.^[13]

As Japan moved towards representative democracy in the late 19th century, leaders hired singers to sell copies of songs that aired their messages, since the leaders themselves were usually prohibited from speaking in public. A distinctively Japanese form of

Art music

Western classical music

• Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra
• Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra
• Japan Philharmonic Orchestra
• Kanagawa Philharmonic Orchestra
• Nagoya Philharmonic Orchestra
• New Japan Philharmonic
• NHK Symphony Orchestra
• Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa
• Osaka Philharmonic Orchestra
• Osaka Shion Wind Orchestra
• Sapporo Symphony Orchestra
• Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra
• Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra
• Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra
• Tokyo Symphony Orchestra
• Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra

Besides traditional

From the 1930s on (except during World War II, when it was repressed as music of the enemy)^[18][19] jazz maintained a strong presence in Japan.^[20] The country is an important market for the music, and it is common that recordings unavailable in the United States or Europe are available there. A number of Japanese jazz musicians, such as June (born in Japan) and Sadao Watanabe have a large fan base outside their native country.^{[citation needed]}

Popular music

J-pop

J-pop, an abbreviation for Japanese pop is a loosely defined musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. J-pop has its roots in 1960s pop and rock music, such as the Beatles, which 70s rock bands fused rock with Japanese music.^[21] J-pop was further defined by Japanese new wave bands such as Southern All Stars in the late 1970s.^[22] Eventually, J-pop replaced kayōkyoku ("Lyric Singing Music", a term for Japanese pop music from the 1920s to the 1980s) in the Japanese music scene.^[23] The term was coined by the Japanese media to distinguish Japanese music from foreign music.

Idol music

Japanese idol musical artists are a significant part of the market, with girl groups and boy bands regularly topping the singles chart. These include boy band Arashi, which had the best-selling singles of 2008 and 2009, and girl group AKB48, which have had the best-selling singles each year of the 2010s.^{[citation needed]} Since the end of the 2010s, more and more idol groups have emerged. Their success is sometimes termed "Idol sengoku jidai" (アイドル戦国時代; lit. Idol war age).^[24] In 2014, about 486,000 people attended Momoiro Clover Z's live concerts, which was the highest record for female musicians in Japan for this year.^[25] Since the Covid-19 pandemic, many idol groups have seen their sales plummet. For example, AKB48's physical sales have fallen from over a million copies sold per single to around 300,000, while groups such as Nogizaka46, Sakurazaka46 or Hinatazaka46 have seen a smaller drop, with average sales of 500,000 to 700,000 copies for their recent singles, making them the most trending Japanese idol groups of the 2020s.

Dance and disco music

In 1984, American musician

In 1990, Avex Trax began to release the Super Eurobeat series in Japan. Eurobeat in Japan led the popularity of group dance form Para Para. While Avex's artists such as Every Little Thing and Ayumi Hamasaki became popular in the 1990s, in the late 1990s Hikaru Utada and Morning Musume emerged. Hikaru Utada's debut album, First Love, became the highest-selling album in Japan selling over 7 million copies, while Ayumi Hamasaki became Japan's top selling female and solo artist, and Morning Musume remains one of the most well-known girl groups in the Japanese pop music industry.

Rock

In the 1960s, many Japanese

Kenji Sawada and Kenichi Hagiwara started their solo career in the early 1970s along with rock bands such as the Power House, Blues Creation, and late 70s

Japanese musicians began experimenting with

In the 1980s, Yutaka Ozaki was popular in young rock fans. Pop rock group such as C-C-B, Tokyo JAP, and Red Wariors gained hit songs. Boøwy inspired alternative rock bands like Shonen Knife, the Pillows, and Tama & Little Creatures as well as more experimental bands such as Boredoms and mainstream bands such as Glay. In 1980, Huruoma and Ry Cooder, an American musician, collaborated on a rock album with Shoukichi Kina, driving force behind the aforementioned Okinawan band Champloose. They were followed by Sandii & the Sunsetz, who further mixed Japanese and Okinawan influences. Also during the 1980s, Japanese metal and rock bands gave birth to the movement known as visual kei, represented during its history by bands like X Japan, Buck-Tick, Luna Sea, Malice Mizer and many others, some of which experienced national, and international success in the latest years.

In the 1990s, Japanese rock musicians such as

The rock band Supercar, which was characterized as having "almost foundational importance to 21st century Japanese indie rock",^[34] released its influential first album in 1998.^[35] They remained active through 2005, with their later albums containing more electronic rock.^[35]

The first

.

Punk rock / alternative

Further information: Japanese hardcore

Early examples of punk rock include

Hanatarashi

.

Ska-punk bands of the late nineties extending in the years 2000 include Shakalabbits and 175R (pronounced "inago rider").

Heavy metal

Main article: Japanese metal

Japan is a successful market for metal bands. Notable examples are Judas Priest's Unleashed in the East, Deep Purple's Made in Japan, Iron Maiden's Maiden Japan, Michael Schenker Group's One Night at Budokan and Dream Theater's Live at Budokan.

Japanese metal emerged in the late 1970s, pioneered by bands like Bow Wow, formed in 1975 by guitarist Kyoji Yamamoto, and Loudness, formed in 1981 by guitarist Akira Takasaki. Contemporary bands like Earthshaker, Anthem and 44 Magnum released their debut albums only around the mid eighties. The first overseas live performances were by Bow Wow in 1978 in Hong Kong, the Montreux Jazz Festival, and the Reading Festival in England in 1982.^[36] In 1983, Loudness toured United States and Europe. In 1985, the first Japanese metal act was signed to a major US label. Their albums Thunder in the East and Lightning Strikes, released in 1985 and 1986, peaked at number 74 (while number 4 in homeland Oricon chart), and number 64 in the Billboard 200 charts respectively.^[37][38] Till the end of the eighties only two other bands, Ezo and Dead End, released albums in the United States. In the eighties few bands had a female member, like the all-female band Show-Ya fronted by Keiko Terada, and Terra Rosa with Kazue Akao on vocals. In September 1989, Show-Ya's album Outerlimits was released, reaching #3 on the Oricon album chart.^[39] Heavy metal bands reached their peak in the late 1980s and then many disbanded until the mid-1990s.

In 1982, some of the first Japanese glam metal bands were formed, like Seikima-II with Kabuki-inspired makeup, and X Japan who pioneered the Japanese movement known as visual kei, and became the best-selling metal band.^[40] In 1985, Seikima-II's album Seikima-II - Akuma ga Kitarite Heavy Metal was released and although it reached number 48 on the Oricon album chart, it exceeded 100,000 in sales, the first time for any Japanese metal band. Their albums charted regularly in the top ten until the mid-1990s. In April 1989, X Japan's second album Blue Blood was released and went to number 6, and after 108 weeks on charts sold 712,000 copies.^[41] Their third and best-selling album Jealousy was released in July 1991; it topped the charts and sold 1.11 million copies.^[41] Two number one studio albums, Art of Life and Dahlia, a singles compilation X Singles, all sold more than half a million,^[42] ending up with thirteen top five singles before disbanding in 1997.^[43]

Japanese metal came to global attention in 2014 with the success of "kawaii metal" band Babymetal. They recorded viral YouTube hits like "Gimme Chocolate!!" as well as international performances including at the UK's Sonisphere Festival 2014 and Canada's Heavy Montréal alongside the likes of Metallica and Slayer. Babymetal was the opening act to five of Lady Gaga's concerts in her ArtRave: The Artpop Ball 2014 tour.^[44][45] Babymetal won numerous awards including Kerrang!'s The Spirit of Independence Award and Metal Hammer's Breakthrough Band Award.^[46]

Extreme metal

Japanese extreme metal bands formed in the wake of the American and European wave, but did not get any bigger exposure until the 1990s, and the genre took underground form in Japan.^{[citation needed]} The first thrash metal bands formed in the early 1980s, like United, whose music incorporates death metal elements, and Outrage. United performed in Los Angeles at the metal festival "Foundations Forum" in September 1995 and released a few albums in North America. Formed in the mid-1980s, Doom played in the United States in October 1988 at CBGB, and was active until 2000 when it disbanded.

The first bands to play black metal music were Sabbat, who is still active, and Bellzlleb, who was active until the early 1990s. Other notable acts are Sigh, Abigail, and Gallhammer.

Doom metal also gained an audience in Japan. The two best-known Japanese doom metal acts are Church of Misery and Boris: both gained considerable popularity outside the country.

Metalcore

In the 2000s, Japanese metalcore bands such as Tokyo's Crystal Lake, Nagoya natives Coldrain and Deathgaze, Kobe's Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Osaka's Crossfaith formed.

Hip hop

Main article: Japanese hip hop

Hip-hop came in the late 1980s and continues to thrive. This was mainly due to the music world's belief that "Japanese sentences were not capable of forming the rhyming effect that was contained in American rappers' songs."^[47]

Different "families" of rappers perform on stage at a

genba, or nightclub. A family is essentially a collection of rap groups that are usually headed by one of the more famous Tokyo acts, which also include proteges.^[48] They are important because they are "the key to understanding stylistic differences between groups."^[48] Hip-hop fans in the audience are in control of the club. They judge who is the winner in rap contests on stage. An example of this can be seen with the battle between rap artists Dabo (a major label artist) and Kan (an indie artist). Kan challenged Dabo while Dabo was mid-performance. The event highlighted showed "the openness of the scene and the fluidity of boundaries in clubs."^[49]

Grime

Main article:

jungle,^[52] and draws influence from dancehall, ragga, and hip hop.^[53] The style is typified by rapid, syncopated breakbeats, generally around 140 bpm,^[52][54] and often features an aggressive or jagged electronic sound.^[55] Rapping is a significant element, and lyrics often revolve around gritty depictions of urban life.^[56]

In 2004, Japanese DJ's began to play grime.[57] In 2008 that MC's, primarily from Osaka, began to emerge. The MC's were inspired by British grime crew Roll Deep, and their mixtape Rules And Regulations. The Osaka MC's consisted of pioneers MC Dekishi, MC Duff and MC Tacquilacci.^[58][59] MC Dekishi released the first ever Japanese grime mixtape in 2009, titled "Grime City Volume 1".^[57] Osaka MC's are known for rapping extremely fast.^[60] Another scene sprung up in the Tokyo region of Shibuya led by Carpainter, Double Clapperz, MC ONJUICY, PAKIN and Sakana Lavenda.^[58]

Synth-pop and club music

See also:

electro music

Synth-pop in Japan was influenced by German electronic and techno artists such as Kraftwerk. New wave and synth-pop bands such as Hikasyuu, P-Model and The Plastics were popular. Many musicians of the 1970s and 80s who were known for pop music turned to techno production such as C-C-B and Akiko Yano. In the 1990s, Denki Groove formed and became mainstays of the Japanese electronica scene. Artists such as Polysics pay explicit homage to this era. Capsule's Yasutaka Nakata has been involved behind the scenes of popular electropop acts Perfume and Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, both of which had domestic and international success; Kyary in particular was dubbed the "Kawaii Harajuku Ambassador".

Kawaii Future Bass

Main article:

Kawaii Future Bass

Kawaii Future Bass is a subgenre of Future Bass, with a generally upbeat sound and heavily inspired by Japanese culture, and often includes Japanese lyrics or references to anime or manga. It began to see success around 2015, mostly pioneered by Snail's House. Due to Japan's increasing influence in foreign countries, Kawaii Future Bass grew popular around the world.

Roots and country music

In the late 1980s,

goshu ondo

.

J-country is a form of J-pop that originated in the 1960s, during the international popularity of Westerns.^[61] Major companies such as Nintendo and Sony continue to produce country and Western music within Japan.^[62][63]

Latin, reggae and ska music

Further information: Japanese reggae and Japanese ska

Music from Indonesia, Jamaica and elsewhere were assimilated. African soukous and Latin music, like Orquesta de la Luz (オルケスタ・デ・ラ・ルス), was popular as was Jamaican reggae and ska, exemplified by Mice Teeth, Mute Beat, La-ppisch, Home Grown and Ska Flames, Determinations, and Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra.

Noise music

Main article: Japanoise

Another recognized music form from Japan is

Masonna, Hanatarash, and The Gerogerigegege

. As befits the challenging nature of the music, some noise music performers have become notorious for their extreme on-stage antics including (but not limited to) physically injuring themselves, destroying their musical equipment, or damaging the venue they're playing at.

Theme music

See also: Anime composer and Anime song

Michiru Oshima, Yoko Kanno, Toshihiko Sahashi, Yuki Kajiura, Kōtarō Nakagawa, Shunsuke Kikuchi and Yuki Hayashi

.

Game music

See also: Video game music, Chiptune, Bitpop, and Nintendocore

When the first

sound chips with which to produce music. As the technology advanced, quality increased dramatically. The first game to take credit for its music was Xevious, also noteworthy (at that time) for its deeply constructed stories. One of the most important games in the history of the video game music is Dragon Quest. Koichi Sugiyama, who composed for various anime and TV shows, including Cyborg 009 and a feature film of Godzilla vs. Biollante

, got involved in the project out of curiosity and proved that games can have serious soundtracks. Until his involvement, music and sounds were often neglected in the development of video games and programmers with little musical knowledge were forced to write the soundtracks as well. Undaunted by technological limits, Sugiyama worked with only 8-part polyphony to create a soundtrack that would not tire the player despite hours of gameplay.

A well-known author of game music is

Mario sports games. Yuzo Koshiro composed electronic music-influenced soundtracks for games such as Revenge of Shinobi and the Streets of Rage

series.

Pop singers such as Hikaru Utada, Nana Mizuki and BoA sometimes sing for games.

See also

• Cool Japan
• Oricon
• Shibuya-kei
• List of musical artists from Japan
• List of Japanese hip hop musicians
• List of J-pop artists

Further reading

• Johnson, H., ed. (2024). Handbook of Japanese Music in the Modern Era. Leiden: Brill.
• Malm, William P. (1959), Japanese Music and Musical Instruments (1st ed.), Tokyo & Rutland, Vt.: C. E. Tuttle Co.
• ISBN 9780837169002

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External links

• (in French) Audio clips: Traditional music of Japan. Musée d'ethnographie de Genève. Accessed November 25, 2010.
• BBC Radio 3 Audio (60 minutes): Minyo singers and Taiko drumming. Accessed November 25, 2010.
• BBC Radio 3 Audio (60 minutes): Sadao China, Yoriko Ganeko, The Rinken Band. Accessed November 25, 2010.
• columbia.jp – Japanese Traditional Music
• Best Japanese non-pop music artists
• Japanese Performing Arts special interest group, Society for Ethnomusicology (international group of scholars who research Japanese music and performing arts)