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Bands and Artists

Arashi, B'z, Dir en Grey, Dreams Come True, Gackt, Camui, Glay, Kageyama, Hironobu, Kawamura, Ryuichi, L'Arc-en-Ciel, Luna Sea

Enka

Barbara's Enka Site, Enka - Song of Sweet Resignation, The Native Ballad, or Enka

Record Companies

Devinette Online, Geisha Farm

Web Rings

Every Little Thing Webring, Hydeism, International Taiko WebRing Home Page, Join the Celebration, Keichan's Doki-Doki J-Town, Shutter Speed Visual Ring, The J-Rock Express Ring, The Ultimate JRock Ring, WebRing: J-Pop, WebRing: Nippongroove

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.

Bandmasters Academic Society of Japan

http://www.basj.or.jp/index-e.html

Promoting Japanese band music. Activities and lecture on brass playing.

Centigrade-J (JPop)

http://centigrade.blandplanet.com/

Translations of newest JPop in English. Unique artist profiles and reviews.

Famous Japanese

http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/famous/

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

Fujisawa Symphony Orchestra

http://orchestra.musicinfo.co.jp/~fujikyo/english.html

Includes schedule and history.

Icepoint

http://www.icepoint.com/

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

Improvised Music from Japan

http://www.japanimprov.com/index.html

Independent labels, upcoming concerts, and artists/groups including profiles, discographies, and interviews.

J-Addicted Gallery

http://idoladd.100free.com/

Features a Japanese idol gallery, wallpapers, and forum.

J-Fan

http://j-fan.com/

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

J-Pop Fan Club

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JPOPfans/

BBS for J-Pop fans.

J-POP Forum

http://www.jpopforum.com/

Talk about the latest groups, Japanese concerts and make friends.

J-Pop Station 2000

http://members.aol.com/jpop00/

A collection of Jpop MP3s, updated frequently.

Japan Mania

http://www.geocities.com/x-hawk/

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

Japanese Channel

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Field/4849/

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

Japanese Idol Photo Gallery

http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Flats/5582/

A photo collections from magazines and pictures, including Noriko Sakai and Emiri Nakayama.

Jpop

http://www.jpop.com/

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

JPop Lyric Station

http://www.homestead.com/JPopLyricStation/

Contains romanized Japanese lyrics of several J-pop songs.

Jpop Music UK

http://www.jpopmusic.co.uk/

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

Jrockish

http://jrockish.bravepages.com/

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

Juice Music Magazine

http://www.juicemusic.com/

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

Keikaku

http://www.keikaku.net/

Profiles and album reviews of independent and overlooked Japanese bands.

Mana Heaven

http://pub237.ezboard.com/bmanaheaven

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

Mognet Official Japanese Translation Group

http://www.mognet.net/

Offers Japanese song translations, forum, and links.

Neko Boy

http://www.geocities.com/neko_boy_fl/

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

Nihon no Pops

http://home.earthlink.net/~glenn_mariko/nihon.htm

Japanese Pop from the 1950s to the 1990s.

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/

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

Project E/J

http://www.geocities.com/project_edge/

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

Rushed Blue

http://www.rushedblue.com/

Guide to several new J-rock and unsigned bands.

Samishii Mimi

http://www.samishii-mimi.com/

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

Sunboiled's

http://sunboiled.tripod.com/

Features English-translated lyrics of Japanese songs.

The J-Rock Saga

http://www.jrocksaga.com/

Japanese rock and visual kei resources.

The JRock Reservoir

http://reservoir.pixemic.org/

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

Tokyo Indie Gig Guide

http://www.geocities.com/mrcraige/

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.

Tokyo Weekender: Music

http://www.weekender.co.jp/MovieMusic/Music/MusicIndex.html

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

Toxic Illusion

http://altered-vision.net/toxicillusion/

A visual indie J-rock info site with biographies, MP3 clips, magazine scans, interviews, a BBS, and recent news.

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.