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Shawn Stockman and Nathan Morris of the U.S. doo-wop quartet Boyz II Men did more than produce 20-year-old Yuki Koyanagi's latest CD, Intimacy. By executing a transpacific high five, they helped legitimize one of the strangest social trends in the land of the rising sun: Japanese who want to dress, act and sing as black as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soul Sister Tokyo-Style | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

...they have their own siren. Koyanagi not only resembles Alicia Keys in appearance, but she's got similar pipes too. Koyanagi's smooth ballads and hip-hop dance track Boyz Don't Cry are worthy additions to any R. and B. collection. Most female J-Pop music is as heartfelt as sliced toast. In Koyanagi's case, her soulful, ballsy croon sounds genuine, albeit incomprehensible at times. That Koyanagi sings in English-a language she does not understand-makes the album an even greater achievement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soul Sister Tokyo-Style | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

...Morris and Stockman met Koyanagi on a Tokyo television show and Koyanagi breezily suggested they sing together sometime. Nearly every song on the album was written by either Morris or Stockman and recorded at the Boyz II Men studio in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania. The two Boyz even lend their Grammy-winning vocals to the track I Don't Want to Think About It, giving Koyanagi even greater opportunity to prove her mettle. The World Cup surprised us enough by showing that Japan's got game. Watch out world: now it has soul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soul Sister Tokyo-Style | 7/8/2002 | See Source »

Among Japanese who did disembowel themselves last week in the good old-fashioned way was Captain Kisaburo Koyanagi, Assistant Naval Attache of the Japanese Embassy in Moscow. Reason: "private." The following cryptic utterance arrived from Moscow the next morning: "It is needless to state a painful impression has been created in foreign diplomatic circles . . . when parties grow so rowdy that neighbors protest, the case becomes a matter of public interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Such Vulgarity! | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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