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hitomi. One name, like Beyoncé. All in lowercase, like an edgy teen. For some reason, when I first discovered JPop, hitomi was the artist...

Ahh Kumiko. There really are no words to properly encapsulate this firecracker of a woman. Whilst she didn’t necessarily hit the ground...

Namie Amuro embodies the slogan ‘been there done that and got the t shirt.’ In a career spanning 3 separate decades and 25 years exactly,...

You know in the Britney episode of Glee, where Kurt gets his knickers in a twist and proclaims ‘Britney Spears IS pop culture!’? That’s...

When people find out I like Japanese pop music I almost always hear the exact same two questions back to back- firstly ‘oh you speak...