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Improvised Music from Japan - http://www.japanimprov.com/index.html
Independent labels, upcoming concerts, and artists/groups including profiles, discographies, and interviews. |
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Tokyo Gig Guide - http://www.tokyogigguide.com/
Guide to live shows in Tokyo with information about venues, bands and other useful information. For Japanese and foreign indie-pop, Shibuya-kei, DJ, and other indie gigs. |
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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. |
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Opera Japonica - http://www.operajaponica.org/
Coverage of opera in Japan; includes monthly schedules, reviews, interviews, international reports, and multimedia files. |
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Famous Japanese - http://www.cc.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/famous/
Large photo collections of current popular Japanese musicians, and performers. |
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Mognet Official Japanese Translation Group - http://www.mognet.net/
Offers Japanese song translations, forum, and links. |
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http://www.jpop.com/ - http://www.jpop.com/
Contains news, reviews, galleries, and special Japan features and photos. |
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http://www.keikaku.net/ - http://www.keikaku.net/
Profiles and album reviews of independent and overlooked Japanese bands. |
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The J-Rock Saga - http://www.jrocksaga.com/
Japanese rock and visual kei resources. |
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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. |
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JPop Lyric Station - http://jpoplyricstation.homestead.com/
Contains romanized Japanese lyrics of several J-pop songs. |
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J-Addicted Gallery - http://idoladd.100free.com/
Features a Japanese idol gallery, wallpapers, and forum. |
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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. |
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Japanese Idol Photo Gallery - http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Flats/5582/
A photo collections from magazines and pictures, including Noriko Sakai and Emiri Nakayama. |
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Neko Boy - http://www.geocities.com/neko_boy_fl/
A fanlisting for Hitsugi, one of the guitarists of the Japanese rock band Nightmare. |
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Fujisawa Symphony Orchestra - http://orchestra.musicinfo.co.jp/~fujikyo/english.html
Includes schedule and history. |
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Sunboiled's - http://sunboiled.tripod.com/
Features English-translated lyrics of Japanese songs. |
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Jrockish - http://jrockish.bravepages.com/
JPop desktop wallpaper featuring artists ayumi hamasaki, dir en grey, gackt, and utada hikaru. |
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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. |
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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. |