Finally, a decent English-language J-pop website
Google "J-pop" and you'll get a dozen or so websites devoted to Japanese popular music. There's certainly no lack of interest in the subject among English speakers, but too many of these websites seem to be hastily cobbled together fan sites, or devoted exclusively to hawking merchandize. Frustrated by the lack of information about Japanese music on the otherwise authoritative All Music Guide (allmusic.com), three foreign veterans of the Japanese entertainment industry recently got together to launch Nippop (nippop.com), which went online Jan 1.
American Keith Cahoon spent two decades as the CEO of Tower Records Japan before starting music publisher Hotwire; fellow countryman Bill Haw is the general manager at the Tokyo office of online Asian entertainment retailer YesAsia.com; while Canadian Steve McClure is known as the author of the book Nippon Pop as well as the Billboard Asia bureau chief.
