82 entries. A source-linked selection of Japanese popular music. Albums, compositions, recordings, release editions and ordered tracks are distinct entries; the entry count is not a count of unique songs.
The 1981 album later celebrated with a 40th-anniversary edition.
Albums · 1981Originally released 1986-06-25; the selected edition is the ten-track 1994 CD VPCB-84022.
Albums · 1986A 1984 release, dated here against a public-library record catalogue.
Albums · 1984A 1977 album recorded at Larrabee Studios in Los Angeles.
Albums · 1977CINDY’s eleven-track second album, originally released June 25, 1990.
Albums · 1990Hiroshi Sato’s fourth album, originally released in 1982; this atlas separately documents Sony’s 2014 two-disc edition.
Albums · 1982Sugiyama’s self-produced 1986 solo debut album; documented here through VAP’s sixteen-track 2022 edition.
Albums · 1986Originally issued in 1985, with songs by EPO and Toshiki Kadomatsu among others.
Albums · 1985A 1976 solo album by Hosono.
Albums · 1976Kuwae’s 1979 debut album; selected edition: the fifteen-track 2015 +5 CD, CDSOL-1640.
Albums · 19791979 collaboration by Kimiko Kasai with Herbie Hancock; selected edition is the 2018-04-20 Be With LP BEWITH028LP, with eight tracks across two sides.
Albums · 1979Kaoru Sudo’s 1980 debut album, originally comprising ten tracks.
Albums · 1980Yamashita’s solo debut album.
Albums · 1976Her second solo album, originally released on October 25, 1977; documented here through the ten-track 2023 Blu-spec CD2 edition.
Albums · 1977Taeko Onuki studio album, originally released 1982-09-21.
Albums · 1982Yumi Arai’s third original album, released in 1975: ten songs with recording arrangements by Masataka Matsutoya.
Albums · 1975Record released in 1986.
Albums · 1986Sixth original album, first issued 1977-07-01; selected edition is the ten-track CD SRCL-2080, released 1991-09-15.
Albums · 1977Originally issued in 1986, with five compositions each by Mariya Takeuchi and Akiko Kobayashi.
Albums · 1986Los Angeles recording originally released 1984-08-28; selected edition is the twelve-track 2019 CD TWCP-121.
Albums · 1984Yuko Imai’s eleven-track album released on April 21, 1990, produced by Toshiki Kadomatsu.
Albums · 1990Record released in 1980.
Albums · 1980Noriyo Ikeda’s solo debut album; official sources disagree between 1979 and 1980 for the original album year.
AlbumsOhtaki’s final original full-length studio album released during his lifetime.
Albums · 1984