Japan's bizarre music industry

Welcome to Japan's bizarre music industry, where the iron rules governing the production line of boy and girl bands would impress even Britain's biggest Svengali. Chris Campion meets the groups, managers and fans - and tracks down the kingpin who for 40 years has held a nation's lucrative pop world in his grasp Fourteen lissom teenage girls are sobbing on stage. They are the members of Japan's mos

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英Guardian紙のJ-Pop特集記事．ハロプロやジャニーズなどアイドル関連．海外からの視点というのも興味深い．