City Pop: a History: How the Japanese Airwaves were conquered 

WOW! Thank you so much for this!!!

Amazingly researched and so well polished! There's nothing quite like your videos out there, and I'm glad you're filling this niche.

I dig the Swiss graphic design look. Great video; subscribed!

the graphics, the research, all of it! just amazing.

Yessssss!!!!! I’ve been trying to find this video again for damn near a year! Such great work!!! Thanks again for creating and sharing this. All of your effort is greatly appreciated!

One of the best videos I've seen that goes into detail about city pop. Great job!

Great job! I loved your video

These long format videos are top quality :)

This is so well versed/researched. I have seen many videos on the rise of city pop, but this is the most in depth i have watched. Great job

This is a FANTASTIC video. Great context for everything, good artist callouts, and I'm super into the graphic design style used here. I'm sad it took me so long to find this video!

Entertaining to hear you pronounce the names of German composers the same way most people say Japanese names

I’m like so in love with city pop. It’s the Japanese component to my obscure 80s USA and UK funk, jazz and R&B jams.

In short USA influenced the City pop boom in Japan after WW2. In 1973 Michael Jackson toured Japan as the Jackson 5. People take City Pop as Japanese but the term is mainly what came out of Japan the sound was already established in the US. Japan added to it heavily and now we are seeing Korea starting to revive the genre after it was short-lived. Since modern K Pop is what took over in Korea. I think they also had a Japanese culture ban.. don't quote me on that though.

Holy moly, what a treasure this video is. Thank you so much for your work, this is fantastic 🙌

This is by far one of the greatest City Pop research and investigation videos I’ve ever seen! Great job! Do you have a playlist with the songs used here be chance?

I gotta applaud you for also including the rise of popularity of citypop sounds and themes in Korea.

Amazing video! I’ve never subscribed so quickly

That was a great video about a great music genre.

Great work. I love any video that video that explains City Pop development properly

thank you for such a detailed video on fascinating history of City pop! thank you for sharing your work with us!

Brilliant documentary, so well researched!

Thank you so much! Awesome work.

Subscribed 😏🎤 And I gotta know your playlists for research purposes

Fantastic, just what I was looking for!

really good content. good historical info

Wow this was thorough, i've been to Tokyo twice and can't wait to get back

amazing video mate!

This video is amazing. Thank you for sharing all that knowledge.

Awesome video! I learned of City Pop through a video on Justin Whang's channel and have been more and more curious since. This video definitely made me want to continue exploring this part of Japanese culture.

U deserve way more followers this video is so interesting !!!!!!

I didn't know the rock scene was at the forefront of culture wars even overseas. That's actually pretty cool.

Absolutely incredible and well-thought out. Proud to be here before your channel goes big.

Excellent video!

Yoo great video! 👊

whyyy this video has so low views!!! amazing research! thank you❤

Lol those at 27:47 are SPEED, GLUE & SHINKI, a rather heavy rock band.

What an amazing video

Very detailed

6:41 thats mariya takeuchi not takako mamiya

What is the song at 16:48 Great video, too!!

Only OGs will remember the original name of this channel

Could we get a list of songs that were used in the background of this video? Would love to check them out!

Could you please share the name of the song playing in 11:55? I'm obsessed and can't find it anywhere. This video was enriching to watch, thank you for this amazing work

Great video and outstanding design! Pretty sure that's Mariya Takeuchi though, and not Takako Mamiya ;)

Pardon my ignorance but what's the song playing at the beginning?

Gotta admit, the music playing while you're talking is pretty distracting. Would prefer if you lowered it a little bit, or put only instrumental songs in the background of the video!

Tell ya what, I'd like the playlist of music used in this video.

What song is that intro???

City pop

whats the song at 6:30???|

After you said “Under the City Pop” for especially Kayokyoku family I disagree. But after finished watching the video and read the thesis I am thinking “maybe it is just the term of “Oldies” for 70s and 80s music by non Japanese People..” Actually all the music back in Showa Era are under Kayokyoku not City Pop (City Pop are subgenre under Folk & New Music after Kayokyoku). Kayokyoku was basic term of JPOP not about group sound and everything like you said in video, but Japan not to use JPOP back in that era and evolute after Heisei Era when Japan trying to sell their music overseas (JWAVE movement (bloom of Shibuya Kei and Rock Music (such as Zard and Hide)). Mainstream Japanese people lives in Showa Era not use City Pop word, they’re often said to call it Kayo (from Kayokyoku), Idol for Idol Kayo, the YMO style because pioneering in Techno Music (Techno Pops) are called Techno-Kayo (successor such as Imokin Trio and CCB (CoCoNut Boys)), Idol for Idol Kayo, and fused Enka with Kayokyoku are called Mood Kayo. The music programs or live stage music achievements awards such as Kayo Megalopolis Festival (Megalopolis Kayo Sai), Kouhaku Utagasen put New Music category after the booming of New Music in late 70’s. Popular music magazine such as New Music Magazine (first issued was called New Rock Magazine in late 60’s) and Gekkan Kayokyoku (it include Takeuchi Mariya and Tatsuro but back in the day and they’re categorized as New Music). Yes… there was City Pop word such as on Tomoko Soryo’s Obi but it was not their native word. Now after the viral of word from internet and Tik Tok, everything from showa era music are called City Pop.

29:09 just like financial collapse of 2008 in the United States

Please add English subtitles, even auto-generated one is fine

What is the song at 5:25?

Black American music culture.

please aloud cc

music is way too loud my guy

dude writing is great but the constant cuts because you cant read the script are really annoying to watch