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Yukiko Okada (岡田 有希子, Okada Yukiko, August 22, 1967 – April 8, 1986) was a Japanese singer and actress, active in the mid-1980s. After winning a nationwide television show at age 15 in 1983, she debuted as an idol in 1984. Her death by suicide two years later led to a number of copycat suicides, a phenomenon that would bear her name
The following is a list of the 20 all-time best-selling Japanese idols in Japan as of 2011, according to the Japanese music television program Music Station. [1]
The genre became closely tied to the tech boom in Japan during the 1970s and 1980s. Some of the Japanese technologies which influenced city pop included the Walkman, cars with built-in cassette decks and FM stereos, and various electronic musical instruments such as the Casio CZ-101 and Yamaha CS-80 synthesizers and Roland TR-808 drum
Japanese-Korean idols (日韓アイドル, Nikkan aidoru): While Japan and South Korea agencies have created collaborative idol groups in the past, with Route 0 in 2002, [55] during the third Korean wave in the mid-to-late 2010s, the term saw usage again to refer to collaborative idol groups promoting primarily in Japan, but with music, styling ...
Onyanko Club (おニャン子クラブ, Onyanko Kurabu, "Kitty Club") was a large all-girl Japanese pop idol group in the 1980s. Some members of the group participated in spin-off groups, such as Nyangilas, Ushiroyubi Sasaregumi and Ushirogami Hikaretai.
The 13th Japan record sales awards (Japanese: 日本レコードセールス大賞) were held in 1980. [2] The 9th Tokyo Music Festival was held on 30 March 1980. [3] [4] Feeling Old Feelings by Dionne Warwick won the grand prize. Body Language by The Dooleys won the Gold Award. [5]
Namie Amuro performing at MTV Asia Aid, Bangkok, Thailand, 2005 AKB48 has won several awards in Japanese popular music. Japanese-American singer Ai's single "Story" was the sixth single in history to receive a triple million digital certification from the Recording Industry Association of Japan. Aa! AAA; Abe, Mao; Abe, Natsumi; Abe, Ryohai; Abe ...
Nakamori won the Grand Prix award for two consecutive years (1985 and 1986), also at the Japan Record Awards. Japanese idol band Onyanko Club made their debut in 1985, and produced popular singer Shizuka Kudō. They changed the image of Japanese idols. [99] Around 1985, however, people began to be disenchanted with the system for creating idols ...