Word: yakushimaru
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Their faces are soft and pretty, their voices tender and sweet. When it comes to pop music, the Japanese like their stars young and female. Last week the top of the pops belonged to a handful of singers - Hiroko Yakushimaru, Akina Nakamori, Naoko Kawai and Tomoyo Harada- whose claim to fame owes more to their winsome good looks than their modest vocal talent. Says Shig Fujita, an entertainment writer for the Asahi Evening News...
Popular sounds are either innocuous imitations of ABBA-like Europop - like Yakushimaru's current No. 1 single, Be a Little Bit Gentle- and the derivative post-Beatles croonings of male stars like Shinji Tanimura and Motoharu Sano. Overwhehningly domestic in origin (Japanese performers account for about 70% of the record market), the pop world shows little sign of the some times violent creativity now rampant in the post-punk West...
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