Japanese Artists

Artists with Japanese Names or Works with Titles in Japanese

The following is a partial list of InternationalArtists whose names are Japanese, or who have works with titles in Japanese. If you can read and write Japanese, please consider adding these artists to your ArtistSubscriptions so that you can be notified when there are additions or changes to their discographies, and you can check them for errors. If you know of other Japanese artists not listed here, please add them.

• = please add the above title in japanese = please add the above text in japanese too

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あ行 (A row)

• Earth (あーす)- overlaps with a non-Japanese artist
• Art-School (あーと・すくーる)
• AI (あい) - there's a non-Japanese artist named A.I. unrelated to this one
• Aikawa Nanase 相川七瀬 (あいかわななせ)
• aiko (あいこ) (柳井愛子)
• AKINA (あきな)
• Akeboshi 明星 (あけぼし)
• ACO (あこ)
• ACIDMAN (あしっどまん)
• 浅井健一 (ASAI Kenichi)
• Asian Kung-Fu Generation (あじあん・かんふー・じぇねれーしょん)
• AJICO (あじこ)
• Asuka (あすか)
• atami (あたみ)
• Arashi (嵐) (あらし)
• Ali Project (あり・ぷろじぇくと)
• Angela (あんじぇら)
• EE Jump (いーいー・じゃんぷ)
• East End x Yuri (いーすと・えんど・ぷらす・ゆり)
• The Yellow Monkey (いえろー・もんきー)
• 175R (いなごらいだー)
• UA (嶋歌織)
• UA×菊地成孔
• 植松伸夫 (UEMATU Nobuo)
• 王菲 (Faye Wong) (ふぇい・うぉん)
• Utada Hikaru (宇多田ヒカル) (うただひかる)
• ARB (えーあーるびー)
• AIR (えあー)
• Hy (えいちわい)
• a.mia (えいみあ)
• Exile (えぐざいる) - overlaps with a non-Japanese artist
• Excel Girls (エクセル・ガールズ)
• 榎本温子 (Atsuko Enomoto) (えのもとあつこ)
• X JAPAN
• m-flo
• Every Little Thing (えぶり・りとる・しんぐ)
• Emmie the Stripper (えみー・ざ・すとりっぱー)
• Emyli (えみり)
• elliott (えりおっと) - overlaps with a non-Japanese artist
• aile (える)
• ELLEGARDEN (えるれがーでん)
• 奥井雅美 (OKUI Masami)
• Orange Range オレンジレンジ (おれんじれんじ)
• Origa (おりが)

か行 (KA row)

• 影山ヒロノブ (KAGEYAMA Hironobu)
• can/goo (かん／ぐー)
• カントリー娘。 Country Musume. (かんとりーむすめ。)
• 神奈延年 (KANNA Nobutoshi)
• Yoko Kanno (菅野よう子) (かんのようこ)
• Garden (がーでん)
• Garnet Crow (がーねっと・くろう)
• Gackt (がくと) (神威楽斗)
• KEIKO (山田圭子 / 小室桂子)
• 菊地成孔 (KIKUCHI Naruyoshi)
• 木村由姫 (Yuki Kimura) (きむらゆき)
• 木村弓 (Yumi Kimura) (きむらゆみ)
• Kirche (きるしぇ)
• きただにひろし (KITADANI Hiroshi)
• Kinki Kids (きんき・きっず)
• Cool Joke (くーる・じょーく)
• 久保琢郎
• Mai Kuraki (倉木麻衣) (くらきまい)
• Crystal Kay (くりすたる・けい)
• Glay (ぐれい)
• Crazy Ken Band (クレイジーケンバンド)
• Grapevine (ぐれいぷばいん) - overlaps with a non-Japanese artist
• Globe (ぐろーぶ) - overlaps with a non-Japanese artist
• Core of Soul (こあ・おぶ・そうる)
• Kumi Koda (倖田來未) (こうだくみ)
• コナミ矩形波倶楽部 (Konami)
• ココナッツ娘。 Coconuts Musume. (ここなっつむすめ。)
• Cocco (こっこ)
• GOING UNDER GROUND (ごーいんぐ・あんだー・ぐらうんど)
• Go!Go!7188 (ごー・ごー・なないちはちはち)
• 54-71 (ごじゅうよんのななじゅういち)
• ごまっとう Gomattou (ごまっとう)
• Gorie with Jasmine & Joann (ごりエ・ウィず・じゃすみん・あんど・じょあん)

さ行 (SA row)

• Cyber X (さいばえくす)
• 桜井智 (SAKURAI Tomo)
• 椎野恭一 (SHIINO Kyoiti)
• Sister Mayo (しすたー まよ)
• JIRO (和山義仁)
• JAM Project
• Chocolat (しょこら)
• 19 (じゅーく)
• SweetS (すいーつ)
• 3B LAB.☆ (すりーびらぼ)
• セブンHOUSE (7 House) (せぶんはうす)
• ソニン (Sonim) (そにん)
• ZONE

た行 (TA row)

• TAIJI (沢田泰司)
• ☆Taku (高橋拓)
• Rie Tanaka (田中理恵) (たなかりえ)
• DASEIN (だーざいん)
• dustbox (だすとぼっくす)
• double (だぶる)
• DANCE☆MAN (だんすまん)
• Change Up (ちぇんじ・あっぷ)
• 鄧麗君 (テレサ・テン) zw sings ja
• TERU (小橋照彦)
• 照井利幸 (TERUI Tosiyuki)
• 10,000 Promises. (てんさうざんどぷろみすぃーず)
• D-51 (でぃー・ごー・いち)
• DJ KAORI (でぃーじぇい・かおり)
• DJ SHARPNEL (でぃーじぇい・しゃーぷねる)
• DJ Hasebe (でぃーじぇい・はせべ)
• DJ Yutaka (でぃーじぇい・ゆたか)
• Day After Tomorrow (でい・あふたー・とぅもろー)
• Dir en grey (でぃる・あん・ぐれい)
• TOKIE (小山時江)
• 刀根麻理子 (TONE Mariko)
• TOSHI (出山利三)
• Transtic Nerve (とらんすてぃっく・なーぶ)
• Do As Infinity (どぅ・あず・いんふぃにてぃ)
• dorlis (どーりす)
• Dream (どりーむ) - overlaps with a non-Japanese artist
• Dreams Come True (どりーむず・かむ・とぅるー)
• DROPS (どろっぷ)
• つんく♂ (寺田光男)

な行 (NA row)

• 中村達也 (NAKAMURA Tatuya]
• nobodyknows+(のーばでぃーのーず)

は行 (HA row)

• Heartsdales (はーつでいるず)
• Alice Holiday
• Hound Dog (はうんど・どっぐ)
• Megumi Hayashibara (林原めぐみ) (はやしばらめぐみ)
• HALCALI (はるかり)
• 浜崎あゆみ (Ayumi Hamasaki) (はまさきあゆみ)
• HUNGRY DAYS (はんぐりー・でいず)
• HAИNAH (はんなー I am not certain on this reading)- there's a non Japanese artist named just Hannah without the И
• VERBAL (류영기 ko sings ja)
• bird (ばーど)
• Bamboo-road Express
• Barnabys (ばーなびーず)
• the brilliant green
• The Black Mages
• BLANKEY JET CITY
• Bunny2 (ばにーばにー)
• Bump of Chicken (ばんぷ・おぶ・ちきん)
• POWER OF TOWER
• PATA (石塚智昭)
• Puffy (ぱふぃー)
• HEATH (森江博)
• hide (松本秀人)
• Joe Hisaishi (久石譲) (ひさいしじょう)
• Hitomi (ひとみ)
• The Pillows (ぴろうず)
• B-Dash (びー・だっしゅ)
• B'z (びーず)
• BEENY & PINK BUNNY (びーにーあんどぴんくばーにー)
• BeForU (びふぉあゆう)
• Pierrot (ぴえろ)
• The 5.6.7.8's (ざ・ふぁいぶしっくすせぶんえいつ)
• Fishmans (ふぃっしゅまんず)
• Fire Bomber
• FASCINATE MILES
• Fayray (ふぇいれい)
• Folder5 (ふぉるだー・ふぁいぶ)
• Kyoko Fukada (深田恭子) (ふかだきょうこ)
• 福山芳樹 (FUKUYAMA Yoshiki)
• fra-foa (ふら・ほあ)
• Full Of Harmony (ふる・おぶ・はーもにー)
• FLASCHAKAYA
• Flow (ふろう)
• BUDDHA BRAND (ぶっだ・ぶらんど)
• Bratz (ぶらっつ)
• Bennie K (べにー・けい)
• Berryz工房 Berryz Koubou (べりーずこうぼう)
• BoA (ぼあ)
• BOYSTYLE (ぼーいすたいる)
• Bo-Peep (ぼ・ぴーぷ)
• Bonnie Pink (ぼにーぴんく)
• Bon-Bon Blanco (ぼん・ぼん・ぶらんこ)

ま行 (MA row)

• 遠藤正明 (MASAAKI Endō)
• Toshiro Masuda 増田俊郎 (ますだとしろう)
• ザ・マスミサイル (Mass Missile) (ますみさいる)
• 松浦亜弥 (Aya Matsuura) (まつうらあや)
• 松本梨香 (MATUMOTO Rika]
• Yumi Matsutoya (松任谷由実) (まつとやゆみ)
• Malice Mizer (まりす・みぜる)
• Misia (みーしゃ)
• Mr.Children (みすたー・ちるどれん)
• 光田康典 (みつだやすのり)
• MINMI (みんみ)
• 桃井はるこ (Halko Momoi) (ももいはるこ)

や行 (YA row)

• 矢井田瞳 (Hitomi Yaida) (やいだひとみ)
• YOSHIKI (林佳樹)

ら行 (RA row)

• 雷鼓 (raico) (らいこ)
• Rize
• Ra:IN
• L'Arc~en~Ciel (らるくあんしえる)
• LISA (エリザベス・サクラ・成田)
• RYTHEM (りずむ)
• Little by Little (りとる・ばい・りとる)
• Kunihiko Ryo (梁邦彦) (りょうくにひこ)- has releases in Japanese and Korean

わ行 (WA row)

• Misato Watanabe (渡辺美里) (わたなべみさと)

need to sort still

• catchers of mad wreck - think, but am not certain they're Japanese. Album I have is a non-vocal trip hop one, only real entry for it I've found online is a chinese one that lists electronic albums from various countries and says this album wasn't released by a label so it's probably a white label release of some sort - DJKC

Wikipedia list of Japanese musical groups Much more extensive Japanese Wikipedia list of musical groups (includes some non-Japanese groups)

Sorting

Notes on Japanese sorting: Japanese is organized into rows for the alphabet. Order is a, i, u, e, o for vowels. (Hepburn romanization used for all of the English)

あ行 (A row) is: あA いI うU えE おO

か行 (KA row) is: かKA がGA きKI ぎGI くKU ぐGU けKE げGE こKO ごGO

さ行 (SA row) is: さSA ざZA しSHI じJI すSU ずZU せSE ぜZE そSO ぞ ZO

た行 (TA row) is: たTA だDA ちCHI ぢJI つTSU づZU てTE でDE とTO どDO

な行 (NA row) is: なNA にNI ぬNU ねNE のNO

は行 (HA row) is: はHA ばBA ぱPA ひHI びBI ぴPI ふFU ぶBU ぷPU へHE べBE ぺPE ほHO ぼBO ぽPO

ま行 (MA row) is: まMA みMI むMU めME もMO

や行 (YA row) is: やYA ゆYU よYO

ら行 (RA row) is: らRA りRI るRU れRE ろRO (and by extension because of japanese phonetics: LA LI LU LE LO)

わ行 (WA row) is: わWA をWO んN

Sorting is done by the reading of the name in hiragana. For example that is highly different from English sorting, the band 175R is pronounced Inago Rider so the sort name is いなごらいだー and it goes under I in the A row. For an example of one that does sort similar to how it would in English, the artist AI is also pronounced Ai so her sort name is あい and it goes under A in the A row. Similarily the band dorlis is pronounced Doorisu so their sort name is どーりす and it goes under DO in the TA row.

If you don't know the reading of a Japanese group/artist name then try searching Listen.jp for the artist name. If it's on there, and most Japanese artists should be, on the artist page it gives hiragana and katakana readings of the name. If you can't read Japanese at all or figure out the sort then just add the artist under the "need to sort still" heading.

Discussion

Added some possibly chinese artists but is not sure. place holder until can be established. kiara, could you please tell me how to enter esoteric characters without everything going to heck? thank you. ~mo

Corrected the symbols but neither of those are Japanese. Names look Chinese to me. As for entering, copy and pasting works fine depending on your browser and encoding settings within it. - DJKC

I've moved those over to the Chinese page (Google confirmed that they're Chinese not Japanese). I just copy and paste and it works, but that's not very helpful. :) Check what encoding your browser thinks the page is, the page is being sent as Latin1, so I assume that's what the wiki expects, if yours is set to Shift-JIS or something, that's probably why. --Kiara

Added several artists, some without links because they're not yet in MB as a sort of TODO list. - DJKC

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Authors: Mo, Kiara, DJKC, jesus2099