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Index Ryūkōka

is a Japanese musical genre.[1]

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  1. 169 relations: A-side and B-side, Aikoku Kōshinkyoku, Akiko Futaba, Album, Amazon (company), Ambon Island, Aoi sanmyaku, Asahi Broadcasting Corporation, Ayumi Ishida (actress), Baritone, Battle of Attu, Billboard Hot 100, Bin Uehara, Blues, BNET, Chiemi Eri, Chiyako Sato, Chiyoko Shimakura, Chord (music), Classical music, Conducting, Crooner, D minor, Degree (music), Dodoitsu, Duet, Edo period, Eikichi Yazawa, Emperor Go-Shirakawa, Enka, Equal temperament, Ero guro, Frank Nagai, Fred Fisher, Fujiwara Opera, G minor, Geisha, Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign, Glossary of music terminology, Google Books, Group sounds, Guadalcanal campaign, Guitar, Hachidai Nakamura, Hachiro Kasuga, Happy End (band), Harmony, Haruo Minami, Haruo Oka, Heian period, ... Expand index (119 more) »

  2. Japanese styles of music

A-side and B-side

The A-side and B-side are the two sides of phonograph records and cassettes, and the terms have often been printed on the labels of two-sided music recordings.

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Aikoku Kōshinkyoku

is a Japanese patriotic song composed by Tōkichi Setoguchi with lyrics by Yukio Morikawa.

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Akiko Futaba

was a Japanese popular music (ryūkōka) singer.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital.

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Amazon (company)

Amazon.com, Inc., doing business as Amazon, is an American multinational technology company, engaged in e-commerce, cloud computing, online advertising, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.

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Ambon Island

Ambon Island is part of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia.

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Aoi sanmyaku

is a 1949 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.

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Asahi Broadcasting Corporation

is a certified broadcasting holding company headquartered in Osaka, Japan.

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Ayumi Ishida (actress)

is a Japanese actress and singer.

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Baritone

A baritone is a type of classical male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the bass and the tenor voice-types.

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Battle of Attu

The Battle of Attu (codenamed Operation Landcrab), which took place on 11–30 May 1943, was fought between forces of the United States, aided by Canadian reconnaissance and fighter-bomber support, and Japan on Attu Island off the coast of the Territory of Alaska as part of the Aleutian Islands campaign during the American Theater and the Pacific Theater.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Bin Uehara

was a Japanese music (ryūkōka) singer and soldier.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Ryūkōka and Blues are popular music.

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BNET

BNET was an online magazine dedicated to issues of business management.

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Chiemi Eri

, was a Japanese singer and actress.

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Chiyako Sato

Chiyako Satō (佐藤千夜子 Satō Chiyako) was a Japanese singer.

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Chiyoko Shimakura

(30 March 1938 – 8 November 2013) was an Enka singer and TV presenter in Japan.

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Chord (music)

In music, a chord is a group of two or more notes played simultaneously, typically consisting of a root note, a third, and a fifth.

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Classical music

Classical music generally refers to the art music of the Western world, considered to be distinct from Western folk music or popular music traditions.

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Conducting

Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.

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Crooner

A crooner is a singer that performs with a smooth, intimate style that originated in the 1920s.

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D minor

D minor is a minor scale based on D, consisting of the pitches D, E, F, G, A, B, and C. Its key signature has one flat.

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Degree (music)

In music theory, the scale degree is the position of a particular note on a scale relative to the tonic—the first and main note of the scale from which each octave is assumed to begin.

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Dodoitsu

Dodoitsu (都々逸) is a form of Japanese poetry developed towards the end of the Edo period.

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Duet

A duet is a musical composition for two performers in which the performers have equal importance to the piece, often a composition involving two singers or two pianists.

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Edo period

The, also known as the, is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo.

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Eikichi Yazawa

is a Japanese singer-songwriter, and a prominent figure in Japanese popular music.

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Emperor Go-Shirakawa

was the 77th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

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Enka

is a Japanese music genre considered to resemble traditional Japanese music stylistically. Ryūkōka and Enka are Japanese styles of music.

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Equal temperament

An equal temperament is a musical temperament or tuning system that approximates just intervals by dividing an octave (or other interval) into steps such that the ratio of the frequencies of any adjacent pair of notes is the same.

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Ero guro

is an artistic genre that puts its focus on eroticism, sexual corruption, and decadence.

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Frank Nagai

Frank Nagai (フランク 永井; March 18, 1932 – October 27, 2008) was a Japanese singer.

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Fred Fisher

Fred Fisher (born Alfred Breitenbach, September 30, 1875 – January 14, 1942) was a German-born American songwriter and Tin Pan Alley music publisher.

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Fujiwara Opera

The is an opera company located in Tokyo, Japan, and is notably that nation's first and oldest professional opera company.

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G minor

G minor is a minor scale based on G, consisting of the pitches G, A, flat, C, D, Eflat, and F. Its key signature has two flats.

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Geisha

(), also known as (in Kyoto and Kanazawa) or, are female Japanese performing artists and entertainers trained in traditional Japanese performing arts styles, such as dance, music and singing, as well as being proficient conversationalists and hosts.

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Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign

The Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign were a series of battles fought from August 1942 through February 1944, in the Pacific theatre of World War II between the United States and Japan.

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Glossary of music terminology

A variety of musical terms are encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Group sounds

, often abbreviated as GS, is a genre of Japanese rock music which became popular in the mid to late 1960s and initiated the fusion of Japanese kayōkyoku music and Western rock music. Ryūkōka and Group sounds are Japanese styles of music.

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Guadalcanal campaign

The Guadalcanal campaign, also known as the Battle of Guadalcanal and codenamed Operation Watchtower by American forces, was a military campaign fought between 7 August 1942 and 9 February 1943 on and around the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater of World War II.

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Guitar

The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with some exceptions) and typically has six or twelve strings.

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Hachidai Nakamura

was a Japanese songwriter and jazz pianist.

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Hachiro Kasuga

, born Minoru Watabe, was a Japanese enka singer.

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Happy End (band)

was a Japanese folk rock band active from 1969 to 1972.

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Harmony

In music, harmony is the concept of combining different sounds together in order to create new, distinct musical ideas.

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Haruo Minami

, born, was a Japanese enka singer and rōkyoku performer.

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Haruo Oka

, real name, was a Japanese ryūkōka singer. He studied music as an enka-shi or a street musician. At that time, he was encouraged by Taro Shoji in Ginza. He signed with King Records in 1938. He debuted with song "Kokkyō no Haru" (国境の春, lit. "Spring at the Border") in 1939.

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Heian period

The is the last division of classical Japanese history, running from 794 to 1185.

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Hibari Misora

was a Japanese singer, actress and cultural icon.

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Hideaki Tokunaga

is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter and actor.

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Hideko Takamine

was a Japanese actress who began as a child actress and maintained her fame in a career that spanned 50 years.

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Hideo Murata

was a Japanese rōkyoku and enka singer.

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Himeyuri students

The, sometimes called "Lily Corps" in English, was a group of 222 students and 18 teachers of the and formed into a nursing unit for the Imperial Japanese Army during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945.

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Hirohito surrender broadcast

The Hirohito surrender broadcast, also known as the Jewel Voice Broadcast (Broadcast of the Emperor's Voice), was a radio broadcast of surrender given by Hirohito, the emperor of Japan, on August 15, 1945.

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Hogetsu Shimamura

Hōgetsu Shimamura (February 28, 1871 - November 5, 1918) was a Japanese critic, novelist and leader of Shingeki.

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Hokkien pop

Hokkien pop, also known as Taiwanese Hokkien popular music, T-pop, Tai-pop, Minnan Pop and Taiwanese folk, is a popular music genre sung in Hokkien, especially Taiwanese Hokkien and produced mainly in Taiwan and sometimes in Fujian in Mainland China or Hong Kong or even Singapore in Southeast Asia. Ryūkōka and Hokkien pop are Japanese styles of music.

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Hotaru no Hikari

is a Japanese song incorporating the tune of Scottish folk song Auld Lang Syne with completely different lyrics by Chikai Inagaki, first introduced in a collection of singing songs for elementary school students in 1881 (Meiji 14).

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Ichimaru

, born, was a popular Japanese recording artist and geisha.

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Ichirō Fujiyama

, born, was a Japanese singer and composer, known for his contribution to Japanese popular music called ryūkōka by his Western classical music skills.

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Impersonator

An impersonator is someone who imitates or copies the behavior or actions of another.

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Indonesia

Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans.

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Isao Hayashi

was a Japanese popular music and military music singer and composer.

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Itoigawa

is a city located in Niigata Prefecture, Japan., the city had an estimated population of 41,333, and a population density of 55 persons per km2. The total area of the city is.

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Izu Ōshima

is an inhabited volcanic island in the Izu archipelago in the Philippine Sea, off the coast of Honshu, Japan, east of the Izu Peninsula and southwest of Bōsō Peninsula.

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Izumi Yukimura

is a Japanese popular singer and actress.

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J-pop

(often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as, is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Ryūkōka and j-pop are Japanese styles of music.

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JANJAN

JANJAN, short for Japan Alternative News for Justices and New Cultures, was a Japanese online newspaper started by Ken Takeuchi, journalist and former mayor of Kamakura, Kanagawa.

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Japan Record Awards

is a major music awards show, held annually in Japan that recognizes outstanding achievements in the Japan Composer's Association.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. Ryūkōka and Jazz are popular music.

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Johnnys

were a Japanese boy band created by Johnny Kitagawa before the formation of the Japanese talent agency Johnny & Associates.

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JVC

JVC (short for Japan Victor Company) is a Japanese brand owned by JVCKenwood.

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Katsuhisa Hattori

was a Japanese classical composer who also wrote music for anime films, television series and OVAs.

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Katsutaro Kouta

was a Japanese female geisha and ryūkōka singer, who performed in the "New-Min'yō" style of singing.

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Katyusha's Song

Katyusha's Song, or "Song of Katyusha" is a Japanese song which was highly popular in early-20th century Japan.

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Kayōkyoku

is a Japanese pop music genre, which became a base of modern J-pop. Ryūkōka and Kayōkyoku are Japanese styles of music.

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Kazumasa Oda

is a Japanese singer-songwriter, and composer.

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Kazuo Funaki

is a Japanese Enka singer.

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Kōhaku Uta Gassen

, more commonly known simply as Kōhaku, is an annual New Year's Eve television special produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK.

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Klaus Pringsheim Sr.

Klaus Pringsheim Sr. (24 July 1883 – 7 December 1972) was a German-born composer, conductor, music-educator and the twin brother of Katharina "Katia" Pringsheim, who married Thomas Mann in 1905.

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Kunisada Chūji

was a popular figure in the Edo period.

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Kyoto

Kyoto (Japanese: 京都, Kyōto), officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu.

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Kyu Sakamoto

, legally registered as since 1956, was a Japanese singer and actor.

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Legato

In music performance and notation, legato (Italian for "tied together"; French lié; German gebunden) indicates that musical notes are played or sung smoothly and connected.

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Lied

In the Western classical music tradition, Lied is a term for setting poetry to classical music to create a piece of polyphonic music.

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Masaharu Fukuyama

is a Japanese singer-songwriter and actor from Nagasaki.

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Masao Koga

was a Japanese composer, mandolinist, and guitarist of the Shōwa era who was dubbed "Japan's Irving Berlin" by Universal Press Syndicate.

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Miagete Goran Yoru no Hoshi o

"Miagete goran yoru no hoshi wo" (見上げてごらん夜の星を "Look up at the stars in the night") is a 1963 hit song performed by a Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto.

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Michiya Mihashi

Michiya Mihashi (三橋美智也 Mihashi Michiya, November 10, 1930 – January 8, 1996), born Michiya Kitazawa (北沢 美智也 Kitazawa Michiya) in Kamiiso, Hokkaidō, was an enka singer in postwar Japan.

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Mickey Curtis

is a Japanese actor, singer and Media Personality.

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Microphone

A microphone, colloquially called a mic, or mike, is a transducer that converts sound into an electrical signal.

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Mieko Hirota

was a Japanese singer.

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Min'yō

, Nihon min'yō, Japanese min'yō or Japanese folk music is a genre of traditional Japanese music.

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Minna no Uta

, literally Everyone's Songs (English title: Songs for Everyone), is a five-minute NHK TV and radio program which is broadcast several times daily.

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Minor scale

In western classical music theory, the minor scale refers to three scale patterns – the natural minor scale (or Aeolian mode), the harmonic minor scale, and the melodic minor scale (ascending or descending).

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Mothra

is a fictional monster or kaiju, that first appeared in the 1961 film Mothra, produced and distributed by Toho Studios.

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Mount Akagi

is a stratovolcano in Gunma Prefecture, Japan.

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Music genre

A music genre is a conventional category that identifies some pieces of music as belonging to a shared tradition or set of conventions.

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Nagano Prefecture

is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū.

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Nagasaki

, officially known as Nagasaki City (label), is the capital and the largest city of the Nagasaki Prefecture on the island of Kyushu in Japan.

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Nakano, Nagano

is a city located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

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New Guinea campaign

The New Guinea campaign of the Pacific War lasted from January 1942 until the end of the war in August 1945.

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NHK

, also known by its romanized initialism NHK, is a Japanese public broadcaster.

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Niigata (city)

is a city located in the northern part of Niigata Prefecture. It is the capital and the most populous city of Niigata Prefecture, and one of the cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, located in the Chūbu region of Japan. It is the most populous city on the west coast of Honshu, and the second populous city in Chūbu region after Nagoya.

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Nikkan Sports

is the first-launched Japanese daily sports newspaper founded in 1946.

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Nippon Budokan

The, often shortened to simply Budokan, is an indoor arena in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.

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Nippon Columbia

, often pronounced Korombia, operating internationally as, is a Japanese record label founded in 1910 as Nipponophone Co., Ltd.

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Nippon Crown

is a Japanese record label established as Crown Records on 6 September 1963.

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Nippon Television

The, also known as (NTV), with the call sign JOAX-DTV (channel 4), is a Japanese television station serving the Kantō region as the flagship station of the Nippon News Network and the Nippon Television Network System.

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Nishinippon Shimbun

The is a Japanese language daily newspaper published by the.

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Noriko Awaya

was a Japanese female soprano chanteuse and popular music (ryūkōka) singer.

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Ondo (music)

is a type of Japanese folk music genre. Ryūkōka and Ondo (music) are Japanese styles of music.

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Opera

Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

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Operetta

Operetta is a form of theatre and a genre of light opera.

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Orchestra

An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.

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Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music.

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Pacific War

The Pacific War, sometimes called the Asia–Pacific War or the Pacific Theater, was the theater of World War II that was fought in eastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and Oceania.

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Pentatonic scale

A pentatonic scale is a musical scale with five notes per octave, in contrast to heptatonic scales, which have seven notes per octave (such as the major scale and minor scale).

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People's Honour Award

is one of the commendations bestowed by the Prime Minister of Japan on people in recognition of their accomplishments in sport, entertainment, and other fields.

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Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry.

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Rōkyoku

Rōkyoku (浪曲; also historically called naniwa-bushi, 浪花節) is a genre of traditional Japanese narrative singing. Ryūkōka and Rōkyoku are Japanese styles of music.

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Resurrection (Tolstoy novel)

Resurrection (pre-reform Russian: Воскресеніе; post-reform Voskreséniye, also translated as The Awakening), first published in 1899, was the last novel written by Leo Tolstoy.

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Rock and roll

Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock-n-roll, rock 'n' roll, rock n' roll or Rock n' Roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Ryūkōka and rock and roll are popular music.

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Roei no Uta

is a Japanese gunka song composed by Yūji Koseki with lyrics by Kīchirō Yabūchi.

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Ryōichi Hattori

was a Japanese pop and jazz composer.

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Ryoko Moriyama

(born January 18, 1948) is a Japanese folk singer and actress.

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Ryukyu Islands

The, also known as the or the, are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni the westernmost.

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Saburō Kitajima

is a Japanese enka singer, lyricist, actor and composer.

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Sendō Kouta

is a Japanese kayōkyoku song originally published as sheet music in 1921 under the common name of, receiving its current title in 1922.

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Shanghai

Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.

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Shōwa era

The was the period of Japanese history corresponding to the reign of Emperor Shōwa (commonly known in English as Emperor Hirohito) from December 25, 1926, until his death on January 7, 1989.

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Shinpei Nakayama

was a Japanese songwriter famous for his many children's songs (warabe uta) and popular songs (ryūkōka) that have become deeply embedded in Japanese popular culture.

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Shizuko Kasagi

was a Japanese jazz singer and actress.

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Shussei Heishi o Okuru Uta

is a Japanese gunka song composed by Isao Hayashi with lyrics by Daisaburō Ikuta.

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Sinosphere

The Sinosphere, also known as the Chinese cultural sphere, East Asian cultural sphere, or the Sinic world, encompasses multiple countries in East Asia and Southeast Asia that were historically heavily influenced by Chinese culture.

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Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

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Staff (music)

In Western musical notation, the staff: "in British English: also called: stave; plural: staffs or staves" (UK also stave; plural: staffs or staves), also occasionally referred to as a pentagram, is a set of five horizontal lines and four spaces that each represent a different musical pitch or in the case of a percussion staff, different percussion instruments.

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Sukiyaki (song)

, alternatively titled "Sukiyaki", is a song by Japanese crooner Kyu Sakamoto, first released in Japan in 1961.

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Sumako Matsui

was a Japanese actress and singer.

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Takashi Nagai

was a Japanese Catholic physician specializing in radiology, an author, and a survivor of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki.

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Tango

Tango is a partner dance and social dance that originated in the 1880s along the Río de la Plata, the natural border between Argentina and Uruguay.

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Taro Shoji

was a popular Japanese ryūkōka singer.

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Teru teru bōzu

A is a small traditional handmade doll hung outside doors and windows in Japan in hope of sunny weather.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

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The Bells of Nagasaki

is a 1949 book by Takashi Nagai.

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The Folk Crusaders

, also known as simply, was a Japanese folk group, popular in Japan in the later half of the 1960s.

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The Peanuts

were a Japanese vocal group consisting of twin sisters Emi (Itō Emi) and Yumi Itō (Itō Yumi).

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Tokyo College of Music

is a private music school in Toshima, Tokyo, Japan.

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Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra

, commonly abbreviated by fans as Skapara or TSPO, is a Japanese ska and jazz band formed in 1988 by the percussionist Asa-Chang, and initially composed of over 10 veterans of Tokyo's underground scene.

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Tokyo University of the Arts

or is a school of art and music in Japan.

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Toshiba

is a Japanese multinational electronics company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

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Traditional Japanese music

Traditional Japanese music is the folk or traditional music of Japan.

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Traditional pop

Traditional pop (also known as classic pop and pre-rock and roll pop) is Western pop music that generally pre-dates the advent of rock and roll in the mid-1950s.

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Trot (music)

Trot is a genre of Korean popular music, known for its use of repetitive rhythm and vocal inflections.

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Uyoku dantai

refers to Japanese ultranationalist far-right activists, provocateurs, and internet trolls (as netto-uyoku) often organized in groups.

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Violin

The violin, colloquially known as a fiddle, is a wooden chordophone, and is the smallest, and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in regular use in the violin family.

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Vocal music

Vocal music is a type of singing performed by one or more singers, either with instrumental accompaniment, or without instrumental accompaniment (a cappella), in which singing provides the main focus of the piece.

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War song

A war song is a musical composition that relates to war, or a society's attitudes towards war.

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Yamaha Corporation

is a Japanese musical instrument and audio equipment manufacturer.

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Yūji Koseki

was a Japanese ryūkōka, gunka, march, fight song and film score composer.

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Yūrakuchō de Aimashō

is 1958 Japanese romance-drama film in technicolor, directed by Koji Shima.

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Yūzō Kayama

is a Japanese popular musician, singer-songwriter and actor.

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YesAsia

YesAsia (formerly AsiaCD) is an online retail company founded in 1998 that sells Asian entertainment products worldwide.

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Yoshie Fujiwara

was a Japanese tenor singer.

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Yoshiko Yamaguchi

was a Japanese singer, actress, journalist, and politician.

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Yoshio Tabata

was a Japanese ryūkōka and enka singer, songwriter, and electric guitarist.

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Yukio Hashi

is a Japanese enka singer and actor.

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1964 Summer Olympics

The, officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 (東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan.

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See also

Japanese styles of music

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryūkōka

Also known as Ryukoka.

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