Word: noriko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Eels. The jazzu wave first rolled over Japan after the 1923 earthquake, when many Americans were there to aid in relief and reconstruction. It receded when the militarists took power, but began to rise again after the war. Dumpy little Noriko Awae, who sings the blues several shades lighter than her U.S. sisters, was soon a national figure. Yet in the last two years the blues have faded somewhat behind a blaze of boogie...