This list tries to include all artists/bands from all genres originating from Japan. This list does not include artists/bands who perform in Japanese but are of different origin.

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A

AAA Abingdon Boys School A.B.'s Aburadako Access Acid Acid Android Acid Black Cherry Acid Mothers Temple Acidman ACO Ado Afilia Saga Ai Otsuka Aice5 aiko Aimer Aimyon Aion Aira Mitsuki Ajico Akanishi Jin AKB48 Akeboshi Aki Misato Akiko Suwanai Akiko Yano Akino Arai Akira Ifukube Akira Kushida Akishibu Project Aldious Alexandros ALI Alice Nine Aliene Ma'riage Ali Project Alma Kaminiito Ami Suzuki Amoyamo AMWE An Cafe Angela Angela Aki Angelo Animetal Annabel Anna S Anri Anthem Anti Feminism Aphasia Appare! Aqua Timez Arashi Asa-Chang & Junray Asian Kung-Fu Generation Astro Aska Atsushi Sakurai Aural Vampire Ayabie Aya Hirano Aya Kamiki Aya Ueto Ayaka Ayaka Hirahara Ayana Ayumi Hamasaki Ayumi Miyazaki

B

Baad BaBe Babylon Babymetal The Back Horn Back Number Back-On Baiser Bakusute Sotokanda Icchome Balflare Balzac Band-Maid Banzai Japan Base Ball Bear Bathtub Shitter Baroque BBQ Chickens Beat Crusaders The Beatniks BeForU Bellzlleb Bennie K Berryz Koubou Bi Kyo Ran BIN The Birthday Bis (Japanese rock band) Bite a Shock The Black Mages Blam Honey Blankey Jet City Bleach Blood Bloodthirsty Butchers Blood Stain Child The Blue Hearts Blues Creation Bomb Factory Bon-Bon Blanco Bonnie Pink The Boom Boom Boom Satellites Boøwy Boredoms Boris Bow Wow Boys and Men Brahman Bright The Brilliant Green Buck-Tick Buffalo Daughter Bump of Chicken Buono! By-Sexual B'z

C

C-ute Candies Candy Go!Go! The Candy Spooky Theater C.C.C.C. Cali Gari Camellia The Candy Spooky Theater Candy Tune Capsule The Captains Casiopea Char Chara Champloose Charcoal Filter Charlotte Chage Chage and Aska Chatmonchy Cherryblossom Chieko Kawabe Chihara Minori Chihiro Onitsuka Chirinuruwowaka Chisato Moritaka Chitose Hajime Chocolat Chottokyuu Chu-Z Church of Misery Cibo Matto Cinema Staff Clammbon ClariS Clear’s Cö Shu Nie Coaltar of the Deepers Cocco Cocobat Coldrain Color Cool Joke Complex Concerto Moon Core of Soul Cornelius Corrupted Crack Fierce Crossfaith Cross Vein The Cro-Magnons Crystal Lake Curio Cutie Street CY8ER Cymbals Cyntia Czecho No Republic

D

D D-51 D=Out D'erlanger D'espairsRay The Dance for Philosophy Day After Tomorrow Dead End Deen The Dead Pop Stars Deadman Dear Kiss Deathgaze Def Tech Defspiral Deluhi Demon Kakka Denki Groove Depapepe Der Zibet Destrose Devil Anthem. Devil Kitty Diaura Die in Cries Diesel Guitar Dio – Distraught Overlord Dir En Grey Disclose DJ Kentaro DJ Krush DJ Sharpnel Do As Infinity Doa Does Dolly Doom Doopees Double Double Dealer Dragon Ash Dragon Head Dream Dreams Come True Dué le Quartz DuelJewel Duran

E

Earthshaker Eastern Youth Edge of Spirit Ego-Wrappin' Eiichi Ohtaki Eir Aoi Eikichi Yazawa Elephant Kashimashi Ellegarden Envy Especia Eternal Elysium Eve Eve of Destiny Every Little Thing Exile Exist Trace eX-Girl E-girls Ezo

F

f5ve Fact Fade Fake? Fantastic Plastic Machine Festive FictionJunction Field of View Filament Fire Bomber Fishmans Flap Girls' School Flame Flipper's Guitar Flow Flower Travellin' Band Flumpool For Tracy Hyde Freenote French Kiss Friction Fruits Zipper Fujifabric Fujii Kaze Fujiwara Hiroshi Fuki Fukuyama Masaharu Funkist Funky Monkey Babys Fushitsusha Fuzzy Control

G

Gacharic Spin Gackt GaGaGa SP Galileo Galilei Gallhammer Galneryus Garlic Boys Garnet Crow Garo Gastunk Gauze The Gazette Gedō Geinoh Yamashirogumi Gen Hoshino Genkaku Allergy The Gerogerigegege Ghost (1984 band) Ghost (2004 band) Girugamesh Girl Next Door GISM Glay Globe GO!GO!7188 Gō Hiromi Going Under Ground Golden Bomber The Golden Cups Gollbetty Good Morning America Gore Beyond Necropsy Government Alpha GPKism Granrodeo Greeeen Greenmachine Grief of War Ground Zero Guitar Vader Guitar Wolf Guniw Tools

H

Halcali Hana Hanako Oku Hanatarash Hangry & Angry Happy End Haruka to Miyuki Haru Nemuri Head Phones President Heartsdales Hearts Grow Heath Heidi. Hello Sleepwalkers Hey! Say! JUMP Hi-Standard The Hiatus Hibari Misora Hidari Hide Hidehiko Hoshino Hideki Naganuma Hideki Saijo High and Mighty Color The High-Lows Hijokaidan Hikaru Kotobuki Hikaru Utada Hikashu Himiko Kikuchi Himitsu Kessha Kodomo A Hinatazaka46 Hinoi Team Hiroko Moriguchi Hironobu Kageyama Hiroshi Kitadani Hiroshi Itsuki Hiroyuki Isobe Hisashi Imai Hitomi Shimatani Hitomi Takahashi Hitomi Yaida Hitoto Yo Hitsujibungaku Hizaki HKT48 Hōkago Princess Home Made Kazoku Husking Bee HY Hyde

I

Ib Riad I Don't Like Mondays. Iceman Ichirou Mizuki Ichiko Aoba Idoling!!! Idol College Idol Renaissance Ikimono-gakari Incapacitants Inoue Joe Inoran Inugami Circus-dan Inuwasi IOSYS Ippu-Do Isao Sasaki Isao Tomita Hideki Ishima Izabel Varosa

J

J JAM Project Jacks Jagatara Janne Da Arc Jasmine You Jazztronik Jealkb Jero Jimsaku Jinn Jiros JO1 Johnny's West Juice=Juice Judy and Mary Juju Jun JUNNA Justin Heathcliff Jyongri Jyukai

K

K.A.Z Kagerou Kagrra, Kahimi Karie Kalafina Kamaitachi Kamen Joshi Kami Kamijo Kamiyado Kana Nishino Kana Ueda Kanjani Eight Kannivalism Kanon Wakeshima Kaori Mochida KAT-TUN Kazumasa Hashimoto Keiichi Suzuki (Moonriders) Keiji Haino Keiko Masuda Kelun Kemuri Ken Ken Hirai Ken Ishii Ken Lloyd Kenji Ohtsuki Kenji Ozawa Kenshi Yonezu Ketsumeishi Keyakizaka46 Keytalk The Kiddie Kikuo Shoukichi Kina King Brothers KinKi Kids Osamu Kitajima Kinniku Shōjo Tai Kis-My-Ft2 KK Null Klaha Knock Out Monkey Kobukuro Kōenji Hyakkei Koichi Yamadera Kōji Kondō Kokia Kome Kome Club Korekyojinn Koshi Inaba Kotani Kinya Kotoko Kousokuya Közi Kra Kumi Koda Kuroyume Kusumi Koharu Kwon Rise Kyary Pamyu Pamyu Kyosuke Himuro Kyu Sakamoto

L

L'Arc-en-Ciel La'cryma Christi Lama Lamp Lareine Laputa Last Alliance Lazy Lead Leo Ieiri LiSA Lia Light Bringer Lindberg Ling Tosite Sigure Lite Little by Little LM.C Logic System Long Shot Party Love Psychedelico Lovebites Loudness Luke Takamura Luna Sea Luna Haruna Lynch

M

MAA Maaya Sakamoto Kō Machida The Mad Capsule Markets Maher Shalal Hash Baz Mai Mai Kuraki Make-Up Maki Asakawa Maki Nomiya Makiko Hirabayashi Malice Mizer Mami Kawada Mamoru Miyano Mana Mao Abe Marbell Mardelas Mari Hamada Mary's Blood Masaaki Endoh Masaki Shirai Masami Okui Masayuki Suzuki Mass of the Fermenting Dregs Masonna The Mass Missile Matenrou Opera Yumi Matsutoya Maximum the Hormone Meg Megamasso Mei Ehara Mejibray Melt-Banana Melody Merengue Merry Merzbow Metalucifer Metronome M-Flo Michiro Endo Midori Takada Mie Mihimaru GT Mika Arisaka Mika Nakashima Mikuni Shimokawa Miliyah Kato Minako Honda Minmi Misia Missile Innovation Mitski Miwa Mix Speaker's,Inc. Miyavi Moi dix Mois Momoiro Clover Z Monde Bruits Monkey Majik Mono Monoral The Mops Morning Musume Motohiro Hata Motoi Sakuraba Move Mr. Children Mucc Mute Beat Myco

N

Nagisa ni te Nagi Yanagi Masaya Nakahara Meiko Nakahara Nami Tamaki Namie Amuro Nanase Aikawa Nana Kitade Nana Mizuki Naoki Satō Natori (musician) Nemophila Neo Japonism NEWS Nightmare Nil Ningen Isu Nine Miles NiziU NMB48 No Regret Life Nobodyknows Nobukazu Takemura Nobuo Uematsu Nobuo Yamada Nobuteru Maeda Nogizaka46 Nogod Nokko Nookicky Noriko Tadano Nothing's Carved in Stone Number Girl Nico Touches the Walls Nujabes NYC N Zero

O

Oblivion Dust Oceanlane Off Course Okuda Tamio Oldcodex Onmyo-Za On/Off The Oral Cigarettes Orange Range Oreskaband One Ok Rock OOIOO Otomo Yoshihide Outrage

P

P-Model Panic Channel Paris Match Party Rockets GT Pasocom Music Club Pata Pay Money to My Pain Peelander-Z The Pees Penicillin Perfume Phantasmagoria Phantom Siita The Piass Pierrot Piggs Piko The Pillows Pink Lady Pizzicato Five Plastic Tree Plastics Plenty Plus-Tech Squeeze Box Polysics Porno Graffitti Potshot Prague The Predators predia Princess Princess Prism Psy-S Psycho le Cému Puffy AmiYumi Pyg

Q

Qp-Crazy Queen Bee Qumali Depart Quruli

R

Radwimps Rain Rami Rankin' Taxi Raphael Ray Ray RC Succession Rebecca Rei Harakami Remioromen Rentrer en Soi Rice Rie fu Rikiji Rimi Natsukawa Rina Aiuchi Rina Sawayama Ringo Sheena Ringwanderung Rip Slyme Ritual Carnage Riyu Kosaka Rize The Rodeo Carburettor Rolly Teranishi The Roosters Round Table Rovo Ruins Run&Gun Rurutia Ryuichi Kawamura Ryuichi Sakamoto

S

Sabbat Saber Tiger Sadie Sadistic Mika Band Sads Sakanaction Saki KubotaAkane Maruyama. "大ヒットから40年 二人の「異邦人」の心の旅". 論座 (Ronza). (Asahi Shimbun's website "Webronza"). 30 March 2019. Sakura Sakura Gakuin Sambomaster Sandii & the Sunsetz Saori@destiny Sarina Suno Satsuki Sayuri Scanch Scandal The Scanty Scha Dara Parr Schaft School Food Punishment Schwarz Stein Schwein Screw The Something Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her See-Saw Seiichi Yamamoto Seiji Ozawa Seikima-II Serial TV Drama Sex Machineguns Sexy Zone Shakkazombie Shanadoo Sharam Q Sheena & The Rokkets Shigeru Izumiya Shiina Ringo Shilfee and Tulipcorobockles Shinichi Ishihara Shinichi Osawa Shinya Yamada Shonen Knife Show-Ya Showtaro Morikubo Shugo Tokumaru Siam Shade Sid Sigh Silent Poets SKE48 Skin SMAP Snowkel Softball Soft Ballet Soil & "Pimp" Sessions Solmania Sons of All Pussys Sophia Soul Flower Union Soulhead Sound Horizon Southern All Stars Sowelu SpecialThanks The Spiders Spitz Splay Spyair The Stalin Stance Punks Stereopony Stomu Yamashta Sug Sugizo Suga Shikao Suneohair Sunmyu Sunny Day Service SunSet Swish Supercar Super Beaver Super Bell"Z Super Junky Monkey Surf Coasters Susumu Hirasawa Sweet Steady The System of Alive Syu

T

T-Square Taiji Sawada Takagi Masakatsu Takako Minekawa Takayuki Miyauchi Tak Matsumoto Takeshi Terauchi Taki Rentaro Tamurapan Tanpopo Tackey & Tsubasa Taeko Onuki Taia Taj Mahal Travellers Tatsuya Ishii Team Syachihoko Tegomass The Tempters Tenniscoats Teppei Koike Teriyaki Boyz Terra Terra Rosa Teru Tetra-Fang Tetsu Takano Tetsuya Tetsuya Komuro Theatre Brook Thee Michelle Gun Elephant Thug Murder Thyme The Tigers TM Network TM Revolution Toe Jun Togawa Tohoshinki TOKIO Toko Yasuda Tokyo Jihen Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra Tokyo Yankees Toll Yagami Tommy February6 Tommy Heavenly6 Tatsuro Yamashita Tomohisa Yamashita Tomoyasu Hotei Toshi Tourbillon Towa Tei (of Deee-Lite) Tricot TrySail Tsunku Tujiko Noriko TUBE Two-Mix Tyrant

U

Ua Yuya Uchida Ulfuls Ultra Living Umineco Sounds Under Graph United United Future Organization Unsraw Urbangarde Uverworld

V

V6 Vajra Valshe Vamps Varuna Vaundy Versailles Vidoll Violet UK Vistlip Vivid Vivisick Vodka Collins

W

W Wada Kouji Wands Wasuta WaT White Ash Whiteberry Wink Wino World's End Girlfriend World Order wowaka Wyse W-inds

X

X Japan

Y

Yahyel Mai Yajima Yamaguchi Kappei Joe Yamanaka Yann Tomita Yasuha Yellow Generation Yellow Magic Orchestra The Yellow Monkey Yoasobi Yoichiro Yoshikawa Yoko Kanno Yoko Ono Yoko Takahashi Yoohei Kawakami Yorushika Yōsei Teikoku Yoshida Brothers Kazuya Yoshii Yoshiki Yoshiki Fukuyama Yoshino Nanjo Yoshinori Sunahara Yoshioka Yui Yuria Yui Yui Aragaki Yui Horie YuiKaori Yui Makino Yukari Fresh Yuki Isoya Yukihiro Yumemiru Adolescence Yuna Ito Yura Yura Teikoku Yuri Kasahara Yūta Furukawa Yutaka Higuchi Yuya Matsushita Yūzō Kayama Yuzu

Z

Zard Zazel Zazen Boys Zeebra Zelda Zeni Geva Zeppet Store Zi:Kill Zigzo Zone Zoobombs Zoro Zutomayo Zwei

See also J-pop Japanese hardcore Japanese hip hop Japanese metal Japanoise List of J-pop artists List of Japanese hip hop musicians Music of Japan Shibuya-kei Visual kei

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