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Gagaga SP
Gagaga SP (ガガガSP) is a Japanese punk rock band formed in Kobe in 1997, called Japan's oldest seishun punk band, active without an official hiatus for nearly three decades.
George Yanagi
George Yanagi (柳ジョージ) was a Japanese blues and rock singer and guitarist from Yokohama, leader of the Rainy Wood band and known as the Japanese Clapton, who died in 2011.
Gesu no Kiwami Otome.
Gesu no Kiwami Otome. is a four-member Japanese band formed in 2012 by Enon Kawatani of indigo la End, with a sound blending progressive rock, hip hop, and pop.
GEZAN with Million Wish Collective
GEZAN with Million Wish Collective (ゲザンウィズミリオンウィッシュコレクティブ) is the expanded-ensemble name of Japanese alternative rock band GEZAN, formed with its chorus team during the COVID-19 pandemic.
GLAY
GLAY (グレイ) is a Japanese rock band formed in Hokkaido in 1988, a million-selling 1990s act whose GLAY EXPO '99 concert drew about 200,000 people, then a world record.
Globe (band)
globe (グローブ) is a Japanese music unit of Tetsuya Komuro, KEIKO, and MARC PANTHER that debuted August 9, 1995 with 'Feel Like dance'. Their 1996 debut album sold over four million copies, a Japan record at the time.
Golden Bomber
Golden Bomber (ゴールデンボンバー, also known as Kinbaku) is a four-member Japanese visual-kei air band formed in 2004 whose members mime instruments while performing comedy skits.
Group Sounds
Group Sounds (グループ・サウンズ), abbreviated GS, is the Japanese boom of four-to-six-member electric-guitar bands that dominated the domestic music scene from 1967 to 1969, led by groups like the Tigers and the Spiders.
H ZETTRIO
H ZETTRIO is a Japanese piano jazz trio formed in 2012 around pianist H ZETT M, known for a Guinness-certified monthly single streak since 2019.
Haji (musician)
Haji (ハジ→), formerly HAZZIE, is a Japanese singer-songwriter from Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, who blends rap and singing; his best album "ハジベスト。" reached No. 4 on Oricon in 2015.
Hakushi Hasegawa (長谷川白紙)
Hakushi Hasegawa (長谷川白紙) is a Japanese experimental pop musician blending jazz, breakcore, and electronica; first Japanese artist on Brainfeeder, known for Mahōgakkō (2024) and Honest Feeling Album (2026).
Hana (group)
HANA (ハナ) is a seven-member Japanese girl group, CHIKA, NAOKO, JISOO, YURI, MOMOKA, KOHARU, MAHINA, produced by CHANMINA under BMSG's B-RAVE, formed via the No No Girls audition and debuting April 2, 2025 with "ROSE". Not the FIFTY FIFTY member Hana or SAP HANA.
HANABIE.
HANABIE. (花冷え。) is a four-piece Japanese all-female band from Tokyo, formed in 2015, known for its self-styled "Harajuku-core" sound, a fusion of metalcore, hardcore, and Harajuku aesthetics.
Hanaregumi
Hanaregumi (ハナレグミ) is the solo project of Japanese singer-songwriter Nagazumi Takashi, born 1974 in Tokyo, who started it in 2002 while still fronting SUPER BUTTER DOG.
Handshake event
A handshake event (握手会, akushukai) is a Japanese fan event where ticket-buying fans briefly greet an idol or other celebrity, a format AKB48 popularized nationwide from 2008.
Happiness (group)
Happiness (ハピネス) was a Japanese girl dance and vocal unit under the company LDH that debuted in 2011 with "Kiss Me" and disbanded in September 2023 after fifteen years.
Hashimoto Eriko
Hashimoto Eriko (橋本絵莉子), also known as Eriko Hashimoto, is a Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist born in 1983 who fronted the rock band Chatmonchy from 2000 to 2018 before going solo in 2019.
Hata Aki
Hata Aki, also known as Aki Hata (畑亜貴), is a Japanese singer-songwriter, lyricist, and composer born in Tokyo in 1966, known for anime themes like Love Live! and Lucky Star.
Hawaiian6
HAWAIIAN6 (ハワイアンシックス) is a Japanese three-piece melodic hardcore band formed in 1997, fronted by YUTA, that releases records through its own label IKKI NOT DEAD and runs the punk festival ECHOES.
Hayashibe Satoshi
Hayashibe Satoshi (林部智史) is a Japanese singer from Yamagata Prefecture, born in 1988, whose 2016 debut ballad "Aitai" sold over 150,000 copies and won new artist prizes.
Heavy Rotation
"Heavy Rotation" (ヘビーローテーション) is the 17th single by the Japanese idol group AKB48, released in August 2010. It finished second on Oricon's 2010 yearly chart with 713,000 copies sold.
Hi-Fi Set
Hi-Fi Set (ハイ・ファイ・セット) was a Japanese vocal trio formed in 1974 by former Akai Tori members, known for three-part harmony and the 1976 hit "Feeling".
Hi-Standard
Hi-Standard (ハイスタンダード) is a Japanese punk rock and melodic hardcore band formed in Tokyo in 1991, known for English-language lyrics and its self-run AIR JAM festival.
Hibari Misora
Hibari Misora (美空ひばり), born Katō Kazue in 1937, was a Japanese singer and actress known as the Queen of Enka, recording over 1,500 songs before her death in 1989.
Hikaru Utada (宇多田ヒカル)
Hikaru Utada (宇多田ヒカル), also known as Utada, is a Japanese singer-songwriter who debuted in 1998 with "Automatic/time will tell" at 15; her album First Love (1999) is still Japan's best-selling album, and she returned from a 2010 hiatus with Fantôme (2016).
Hinatazaka46
Hinatazaka46 (日向坂46) is a Japanese idol group in the Sakamichi series that formed in 2016 as Hiragana Keyaki, debuted independently in 2019 with キュン, and has topped the Oricon weekly chart with every single.
Hiroko Shimabukuro
Hiroko Shimabukuro (島袋寛子) is a Japanese singer from Okinawa, a founding vocalist of the girl group Speed who began a solo career as hiro in 1998.
Hiroko Yakushimaru
Hiroko Yakushimaru (薬師丸ひろ子) is a Japanese actress and singer, born in Tokyo in 1964, whose 1981 debut single "Sailor Fuku to Kikanjū" was the 1980s' best-selling female idol single.
Hiromi Go
Hiromi Go (郷ひろみ), born Haratake Hiromi in Fukuoka Prefecture in 1955, is a Japanese pop singer who debuted in 1972 and was one of the 1970s Shin Gosanke male idols.
HIROMITSU KITAYAMA
Hiromitsu Kitayama (北山宏光, born 1985) is a Japanese singer and former Kis-My-Ft2 member who left Johnny & Associates in 2023, joined TOBE, and debuted solo that November.