I love living in Japan, I really do, but it’s taken me a while to get used to Japanese popular music. Japan is slow to change to anything and music is no different. I’m often left thinking many artists are stuck with a style more akin to 2…

I first found out about this Okinawan singer via the Instagram account of a too-cool-for-school type Nagasaki local I follow. I was shocked to see she was playing the only club in town, “Beta”, in September when I’d written it off as somew…