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)
• Iceman アイスマン
• AKINA (あきな)
• access (アクセス)
• Akeboshi 明星 (あけぼし)
• ACO (あこ)
• 浅井健一 (あさいけんいち)
• ACIDMAN (あしっどまん)
• 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)
• Alice Holiday (アリス…)
• 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)
• X JAPAN (エックス・ジャパン)
• 榎本温子 (Atsuko Enomoto) (えのもとあつこ)
• Every Little Thing (えぶり・りとる・しんぐ)
• m-flo (エムフロ)
• 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)
• 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
• KEIKO (けいこ) (山田圭子 / 小室桂子)
• Core of Soul (こあ・おぶ・そうる)
• Kumi Koda (倖田來未) (こうだくみ)
• ココナッツ娘。 Coconuts Musume. (ここなっつむすめ。)
• Cocco (こっこ)
• コナミ矩形波倶楽部 (Konami)
• 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)
• Chocolat (しょこら)
• JAM Project (ジャム…)
• 19 (じゅーく)
• JIRO (和山義仁)
• 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 (ゾーヌ)

た行 (TA row)

• TAIJI (たいじ) (沢田泰司)
• ☆Taku (たく) (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)
• つんく♂ (寺田光男)
• TERU (てる) (小橋照彦)
• 照井利幸 (TERUI Tosiyuki)
• 鄧麗君 (テレサ・テン) Chinese sings (also) Japanese
• 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 (ときえ) (小山時江)
• TOSHI (とし) (出山利三)
• 刀根麻理子 (とねまりこ)
• 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)

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)
• 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
• bird (ばーど)
• Barnabys (ばーなびーず)
• VERBAL (バーバル) (류영기 ko sings ja)
• Bunny2 (ばにーばにー)
• Bamboo-road Express (ばんぶぅ…)
• Bump of Chicken (ばんぷ・おぶ・ちきん)
• POWER OF TOWER (パー…?)
• PATA (ぱた) (石塚智昭)
• Puffy (ぱふぃー)
• HEATH (ヒース) (森江博)
• Joe Hisaishi (久石譲) (ひさいしじょう)
• hide (ひで) (松本秀人)
• 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)
• Fire Bomber (ファイアーボンバー)
• FASCINATE MILES (ファシネート・マイルズ)
• Fishmans (ふぃっしゅまんず)
• FLASCHAKAYA (ふらしゃ…)
• The Black Mages (ザ・ブラックメイジズ)
• BLANKEY JET CITY (ブランキー・ジェット・シティ)
• the brilliant green (ザ・ブリリアント・グリーン)
• 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)
• 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)
• Yumi Matsutoya (松任谷由実) (まつとやゆみ)
• Malice Mizer (まりす・みぜる)
• 松本梨香 (MATUMOTO Rika]
• 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 (よしき) (林佳樹)

ら行 (RA row)

• 雷鼓 (raico) (らいこ)
• Rize (ライズ)
• Ra:IN (ライン)
• L'Arc~en~Ciel (らるくあんしえる)
• LISA (リサ) (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

• Motohiko Hino (日野 元彦), Japanese jazz drummer, see http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E9%87%8E%E5%85%83%E5%BD%A6 and http://www.discogs.com/artist/Motohiko+Hino.

• Terumasa Hino (日野 皓正), Japanese jazz trumpeter, see http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E9%87%8E%E7%9A%93%E6%AD%A3, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terumasa_Hino

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.