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Turning Japanese by The Vapors is popularly interpreted to be a euphemism for masturbation. Following are 5 cover versions.

Pythagorean switch devices (Rube Goldberg Machines) are very popular in Japan, but I've got to admit that I have never seen anything as elaborate or dynamic as performance by Chicago band OK Go.

Kirsten Dunst teamed up with the famous Japanese artist Takashi Murakami and made a cover of Vapor’s “Turning Japanese”.

KillDisco a.k.a. Fakevox makes remixes of J-pop/anime and other Japanese music.

"KOGURE" is a VISUAL KEI band from Germany, which was influenced by different Visual and Rock bands from Japan. Their lyrics are in Japanese with a touch of English. In western Germany, quite a lot of people already know or at least heard of them.

Great jazzy Japanese hip-hop beats.

This is from '12 songs for guitar' by Toru Takemitsu (arrangement).
Her latest CD is 'Kaori Muraji plays BACH'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rpWNYMHabU

Ouch! I ate at McDonald's and now I have to give away a Japanese iTunes Store gift card.

On Sunday, Yoshiki announced that X Japan intends to play at this year’s Lollapalooza festival, scheduled for...

When Nagayoshi Mori was looking for a new hobby, the answer was, quite literally, right under his nose.

Since coming across a nose flute more than 2 years ago, Mori has been enchanted by the little-known wind instrument that is placed over the nose and emits sounds when air is blown through it.

Isnt it fortunate that ABBA never made it to China..(wink,wink..nudge,nudge)

After claiming #1 in Japan, 9th studio album of Namie Amuro, “PAST < FUTURE” has now topped the charts in 4 other Asian territories including South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. (The record for men is currently held by Arashi who scored #1 in five countries as well.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBL2Y7SIK68

Recently this music video named “The whole world is laughing at China being stupid” (全世界都在笑中国傻) has been circulating on the Chinese internet. Initially this music video was “officially approved” by the Chinese government, however netizens strongly reacted to the bitter sarcasm of the lyrics which associated with China’s current situation.

X Japan vocalist Toshi (44) announced yesterday that he has declared himself bankrupt and initiated a divorce from his wife of 13 years.

Billboard has Wonder Girls’ “Nobody” at the hot singles sales chart.

The five girls were Korea’s first singing group to be included in Billboard’s main chart of Hot 100 by ranking 76th. “Nobody” is also currently placed first in the online poll for the year’s hottest music video on musictone.com.