Japanese Music on Twitter

An introduction of Twitter is pretty much unnecessary; by now everybody knows about the micro blogging service that allows you to tell the world in 140 characters what you’re doing. The service has gotten more and more popular lately and also pops up once in a while on news bulletins or newspapers.

Although a lot of people are fond of Twitter and Tweet about their whereabouts regularly, not everybody feels the same about it. Twitter is something that you either love, or hate because you aren’t able to see the usefulness of it. Here at JaME we’re all divided in the same way, one part of the team finds it something worthless they don’t want to be associated with, but others are enthusiastically updating the JaME Twitter. Well, these ‘others’ mentioned would be solely myself, but that’s not the point!

With our Twitter account, we are able to notify our readers of articles sooner. We tweet about new articles or interesting news items, and it will pop up on our follower’s account right away. In this way, we are bringing our content to our readers (often to their cell phones, too), instead of waiting for them to come over to JaME. And another positive effect that we found is that we receive feedback more easily in this way, which we definitely appreciate! (And many thanks to the people who helped to collect these links!)

But not only JaME is available on Twitter, there are also various Japanese artists and companies related to Japanese music that can be followed through Twitter. We’ve made a small list of the artists and companies we’ve found so far, please feel free to comment if we missed any!

AuralVampire – Electro pop group Aural Vampire, in Japanese
BAALofficial – BAAL’s official account, mostly in English.
BoA_USA – Korean pop star BoA, in English.
BBSatellites – Boom Boom Satellites, in English caps.
candypeggy – Peggy from The Candy Spooky Theater, unupdated.
direngrey – Dir en grey, run by management in English. Is currently hoping for 10.000 followers in order to make a special announcement.
DJSiSeN – DJ SiSeN in Japanese and English.
HealingWorldJP – TOSHI with T-EARTH members and staff, in English.
kaya_rose – Solo artist Kaya, tweets solely in Japanese.
livey2venus – OLIVIA (Lufkin), protected.
MasayukiOsada – Masayuki Osada, drummer for CONCERTO MOON. Mostly in Japanese.
miyavi_official – Miyavi’s brand new account on Twitter, in Japanese (so far).
momoiktkr – Akihabara pop star Momoi Halko, mostly in Japanese.
official_aira – Female electro artist Aira Mitsuki in Japanese.
sweet_vacation – Sweet Vacation in Japanese.
toddyphantom – Guitarist Masafumi Todaka of ART-SCHOOL and others, in Japanese.
RYONAI_ – Blam Honey’s RYONAI, in Japanese.
RYOtheSKYWALKER – Urban artist RYO the SKYWALKER in English and Japanese.
ryuichisakamoto – Renowned composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, in English.
takuya_angel – Fashion designer and DJ Takuya Angel in English (thanks for linking us!).

Overseas Companies:

askewmagazine – Askew Magazine
HearJapan – HearJapan
KoMEworld – KoME
marumusic – Maru Music
Rightsscale – Rightsscale
TaintedReality – Tainted Reality
tokyonorecords – Tokyo no Records

And of course:

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