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  2. Wakabayashi Yasushi - Wikipedia

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    Wakabayashi Yasushi is a Japanese designer, known as the creator of the first Kaomoji.He used (^_^) to replicate a facial expression. Despite not creating the design until 1986, a number of years after the American Scott Fahlman, it is believed that the concepts evolved completely independently of each other. [1]

  3. Denpa song - Wikipedia

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    Examples of such usage at the time include songs by Japanese metal band Kinniku Shōjo Tai, which made references to the murder incident. [4] In regards to music, the term obtained a negative connotation, and was mainly associated with music that was considered creepy and had incomprehensible lyrics, often of otaku origin.

  4. Kaomoji - Wikipedia

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    Kaomoji on a Japanese NTT Docomo mobile phone A Kaomoji painting in Japan. Kaomoji was invented in the 1980s as a way of portraying facial expressions using text characters in Japan. It was independent of the emoticon movement started by Scott Fahlman in the United States in the same decade. Kaomojis are most commonly used as emoticons or ...

  5. Category:Songs in Japanese - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Songs in Japanese" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,454 total. ... 17-sai (song) 19-sai no Uta; 21ji made no ...

  6. Ringo no Uta (Michiko Namiki and Noboru Kirishima song)

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    The song is a duet, featuring the Japanese actress Michiko Namiki and the singer Noboru Kirishima and released in January 1946. It is considered the first hit song in Japan after World War II. [citation needed] "Soyokaze" (そよかぜ, Soft breeze) was released on October 11, 1945, and was the first movie produced after World War II in Japan ...

  7. Senbonzakura (song) - Wikipedia

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    Wagakki Band covered "Senbonzakura" and released their music video on YouTube on 31 January 2014. The video was shot at Nakoso no Seki in Iwaki, Fukushima.The cover introduced the world to the band's style of mixing traditional Japanese musical instruments (wagakki) with heavy metal (), and it is the most well-known song in their discography.

  8. Traditional Japanese music - Wikipedia

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    Musicians and dancer, Muromachi period Traditional Japanese music is the folk or traditional music of Japan. Japan's Ministry of Education classifies hōgaku (邦楽, lit. ' Japanese music ') as a category separate from other traditional forms of music, such as gagaku (court music) or shōmyō (Buddhist chanting), but most ethnomusicologists view hōgaku, in a broad sense, as the form from ...

  9. Piko (singer) - Wikipedia

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    His kaomoji is also his logo and the design for his hand puppet, a mouse which has been affectionately called "Pikochu". However, many people misunderstand it as a cat. On July 22, 2009, he released his first physical single, "Thanatos" feat. Tissue Hime and later made his major debut with Ki/oon Records at a concert at Shibuya-AX on March 27 ...