Kusumi Koharu performed a song and dance titled " Balalaika " which has also been flawlessly mirrored in the Hatsune Miku phenomenon.

* 1992 – Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer and actress ( Morning Musume and Dream Morning Musume )

* July 15 – Koharu Kusumi, Japanese singer

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* Koharu Kusumi ( 1992 -)

** on Tuesdays: Koharu Kusumi ( ex-Morning Musume )

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Takeya Ikuhara is a temperamental seventeen-year-old Japanese student attending the fictitious Koharu High School with a strong prejudice against the DearS.

The expression was first used by Kiyoshi Kusumi, editor of the Japanese manga magazine Comickers, in referring to the work of French expatriate Frédéric Boilet, who lived in Japan for much of his career but has since returned to France in December 2008.

* Adenosine Tri-Phosphate ( band ), a Japanese alternative rock / pop band

* Eu Phoria, an active Japanese all girl pop / rock band formed in 2002

Works are being written for 20-and 25-stringed kotos and 17-string bass kotos, and a new generation of players such as Japanese master Kazue Sawai, her students including Michiyo Yagi, and American performers Reiko Obata and Miya Masaoka, are finding places for the koto in today's jazz, experimental music and even pop.

* 1962 – Seiko Matsuda, Japanese pop singer

* 1992 – Maiha Ishimura, Japanese pop singer ( Berryz Kobo )

* 1982 – Sowelu, Japanese pop singer

Kamenashi Kazuya of the Japanese pop group KAT-TUN wrote and performed a song titled " 1582 " which is allegedly written from the perspective of Mori Ranmaru at the Incident at Honnouji.

* " Roman ( My Dear Boy )", a song by the Japanese pop group Morning Musume

* Romans ( group ), a Japanese pop group

Beauty ( 1989 ) boasted a tracklist that combined pop and traditional Japanese and Okinawan songs, yet featured guest appearances by Jill Jones, Brian Wilson, and Robbie Robertson.

** Linda Yamamoto, Japanese pop star

* February 1 – Takashi Murakami, Japanese pop artist

* March 10 – Seiko Matsuda, Japanese pop singer / songwriter

* Rebecca ( band ), a 1980s Japanese pop band fronted by Nokko

is a Japanese pop and jazz musician and singer.

Engrish features prominently in Japanese pop culture.

* Japanese singer Ayaka Hirahara released a pop version of " Jupiter " in December 2003.

As the entries below tend to testify, Pierrot is most visible ( as in the 18th century ) in unapologetically popular genres — in circus acts and street-mime sketches, TV programs and Japanese anime, comic books and graphic novels, children's books and " young adult " fiction ( especially fantasy and, in particular, vampire fiction ), Hollywood films, and pop and rock music.

* Japanese — Alcoholic Kidz: " Pierrot " ( 2009 ); Aya Kamiki: " Pierrot " ( 2006 ); Berryz Kobo: " Kokuhaku no Funsui Hiroba " (" Fountain Plaza of My Confession " ; contains lyric " I am Pierrot "); Tanaka Koki of pop group KAT-TUN: " Pierrot ", from Break the Records: By You & For You ( 2009 ); Yellow Magic Orchestra: " Mad Pierrot ", from Yellow Magic Orchestra ( 1978 ).

* Ayaka Hirahara – Japanese pop singer

* Charlotte ( band ), a Japanese pop punk band

Project, Japanese female pop artists

* Time Machine Network, aka TM Network, a Japanese pop band formed in 1984

It featured Japanese pop superstar Ryuichi Sakamoto, and George Fullan of Train.

In Asia, idols range from Japanese pop megastars Ayumi Hamasaki and Namie Amuro as well as Kana Nishino and Japanese music groups such as Morning Musume, AKB48, and Perfume and Johnny & Associates boy bands Arashi, NEWS, KAT-TUN, and Hey!

* 1995 – Ryutaro Morimoto, Japanese actor and singer ( Hey!

* 1985 – Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer ( Morning Musume and Hangry & Angry )

* 1979 – Megumi Okina, Japanese actress and singer

* 1990 – Sae Miyazawa, Japanese singer and actress ( AKB48 )

* 1994 – Ayaka Wada, Japanese singer ( S / mileage and Shugo Chara Egg!

* 1993 – Yurina Kumai, Japanese singer ( Berryz Kobo )

* 1981 – Kaori Iida, Japanese singer and actress ( Morning Musume and Dream Morning Musume )

* 1973 – Bonnie Pink, Japanese singer

* 1988 – Alisa Durbrow, Japanese model, actress, and singer

* 1992 – Miyabi Natsuyaki, Japanese singer and actress ( Berryz Kobo, Aa !, and Buono!

* 1983 – Jun Matsumoto, Japanese singer, dancer, and actor ( Arashi )

* 1970 – Shizuka Kudō, Japanese singer and actress ( Onyanko Club )

* 1988 – Haruna Kojima, Japanese actress and singer ( AKB48 and no3b )

* 1981 – Natsumi Abe, Japanese singer and actress ( Morning Musume and Dream Morning Musume )

* 1993 – Yuto Nakajima, Japanese singer, dancer, and actor ( Hey!

* Ai ( singer ) ( born 1981 ), Japanese R & B singer

* 1985 – Keita Tachibana, Japanese singer ( w-inds.

* 1976 – Masafumi Gotō, Japanese singer ( Asian Kung-Fu Generation )

* 1982 – Masaki Aiba, Japanese singer and actor ( Arashi )

* 1974 – Fumiko Orikasa, Japanese seiyū and singer

* 1971 – Noriko Sakai, Japanese singer

* 1983 – Mika Nakashima, Japanese singer / actress

* 1987 – Chieko Kawabe, Japanese singer, model and actress

* 1988 – Hironori Kusano, Japanese singer ( NEWS )