The term J-pop refers to a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. In Japan it is known simply as pops . Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional music of Japan, and global 1960s pop and rock music. J-pop replaced kayōkyoku, a term for Japanese popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s in the Japanese music scene.
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| Subject | J-pop |
| Category | Japanese popular music genre |
| Reading time | 1 min · Intermediate |
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