Music Dec 16, 2014
Rock, J-pop and dance: Albums we liked in 2014
by Shawn Despres, James Hadfield, Ian Martin, Patrick St. Michel, Mike Sunda, Ryotaro Aoki and Aaron Krall
The year-end album charts in Japan have a tendency to prop up the same acts year after year: Exile, anything that ends in a "48," and almost every group from the Johnny & Associates stable of boy bands. Writers at The Japan Times, however, ...