J-pop
J-pop is an abbreviation of Japanese pop. It refers to Japanese popular musicians, and was coined by the Japanese media to distinguish Japanese musicians from foreign musicians. Today, the Japanese music industry is the second largest in the world (behind the United States) and while extremely hard to define, it is considered by some as a style, though in essence it refers to Japanese western-influenced popular music except enka. Taro Kato, a member of Beat Crusaders, said that J-pop was not the encoded pop music but the poppusu music remembered by being aired many times.