Most of my exposure to J-Pop has come from the openings and endings of certain anime series, and I've only really been into J-Pop for a couple of years now. Right now though, I have a lot more Japanese songs than I do ones in English.
Besides the most famous J-Pop singers like Ayumi Hamasaki and Utada Hikaru, some of my favorite artists are Bonnie Pink, Hitomi Shimatani, and Mika Nakashima. The J-rock/J-Pop bands Do As Infinity, Puffy, Every Little Thing, The Brilliant Green (Tommy Heavenly6) are all great, and most of them have s... (
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