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Bob Stanley, music writer and member of the London pop group Saint Etienne, knows a thing or two about Japanese pop. Here are 16 of his top tunes. This selection is made up of Japanese female vocal pop from the mid-’60s to the recent past. The oldest song is by Emy Jackson, who was born in Japan but raised in England; “Crying in a Storm” is from 1966. There’s a smattering of ’90s Shibuya-Kei sound