The following fans of Japanese music all over the world have participated in the J!-ENT Japanese Music Statistics Report.

The Japanese music statistical report was originally created back in 1995 to calculate the growing popularity of Japanese music continues to gain momentum and that wave of momentum can be felt in different countries all over the world. .  Many fans of different races and gender all over the world are now passionate about different genres of Japanese music and we at J!-ENT would like to know how you got interested.

The following statistics below have been taken from the last five years. To see the participants of the Japanese music statistics report, please click here.

The purpose of the questionnaire was our curiosity in researching the interests of people who are not residing in Japan and have an interest in Japanese music and more. The following are the results. Version 6 will be released in the Spring of 2001 with the updated information. This information is maintained by Dennis A. Amith (kndy) of the Asunaro Association.

FOR THE PEOPLE WHO PARTICIPATED or WANT OUT!:

If you are currently on the version 5.0 participation report and want your name added or deleted from the fan base report please e-mail us at asunaro@inreach.com or kndy@nt2099.com . Some of you might want us to update your fan information, just let us know what # you are in the list and we can do that a.s.a.p.

If you are not on the list but want to participate, you must fill out the questionnaire. Here are the following questions:

1. YOUR FULL NAME:
2. E-MAIL ADDRESS:
3. GENDER:
4. AGE:
5. NATIONALITY:
6. WHERE YOU CURRENTLY LIVE (State/country/prefecture)
7. HOW MANY YEARS YOU ARE INTO JAPANESE MUSIC?
8. WHAT GOT YOU INTO JAPANESE MUSIC?
9. DO YOU SPEND A LOT ON JAPANESE MUSIC?
10. WHAT STYLE OF JAPANESE MUSIC DO YOU PREFER?
11. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE JAPANESE MUSIC SHOW?
12. WHAT IS THE BEST JAPANESE MUSIC CD OR SONG YOU HAVE HEARD? (TOP 3)

Please submit your questionnaire to: kndy@nt2099.com. 

Please check out our first version of our Japanese Music Statistic Report:

• THE JAPANESE MUSIC STATISTIC REPORT VERSION 1.0

Please check out our Report participants here.

THE 2002 J!-ENT JAPANESE MUSIC STATISTICS REPORT
version 5.2
maintained by the Asunaro Association
(Updated constantly)

A. THE AVERAGE AGE BREAKDOWN OF THE JAPANESE MUSIC LISTENER:
[In 1997, the majority of the people who submitted the Japanese music questionnaire fell in the 21-25 age group. Next being the 15-20 age group and third being the 26-34 age group. As of the release of the 1999 version 4.0, the demographic has now changed to ages 15-20 being the dominant age group of people listening to Japanese music.  Their has been significant increase among Japanese music fans in the 15-20 year old demographic].

10-14: 7
15-20: 106
21-25: 63
26-34: 25
35-40: 6
41 & ABOVE: 4

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B. THE GENDER BREAKDOWN OF THE JAPANESE MUSIC LISTENER:
[As we have expected, the majority of those who submitted the questionnaire were overwhelmingly male but female participants have increased by 30%].

MALE: 136
FEMALE: 87

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C. THE ETHNIC BREAKDOWN OF THE JAPANESE MUSIC LISTENER:
[NOTE: In 1995, the majority of the participants were American but the difficulty was the participants who preferred to be listed by their different ethnicities (ie. Japanese-American/ what we did was anyone who put Japanese-American, they would be listed as American].  Also, another change in version 5, is to combine the participants in China, Honk Kong and Taiwan as requested by other partipants.  This change has now narrowed the gap.]

AMERICAN: 62
AUSTRALIAN: 3
BELGIAN: 1
BRAZILIAN: 1
BRITISH: 12
CAMBODIAN: 1
CANADIAN: 21
CHINESE/HONG KONG/TAIWANESE: 53
COSTA RICAN: 1
DANISH: 1
FILIPINO: 12
FINNISH: 2
FRENCH: 2
GERMAN: 3
HMONG: 1
INDONESIAN: 6
JAMAICAN: 1
JAPANESE (Outside of Japan): 31
KOREAN: 2
MALAYSIAN: 7
MEXICAN: 1
PORTUGUESE: 1
SINGAPORE: 15
SPANISH: 2
THAI: 8
VIETNAMESE: 1

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D. THE AVERAGE # OF YEARS INTERESTED IN JAPANESE MUSIC:
[For the last four years, the majority of listeners have been interested in Japanese music for 2-5 years.  Last year, we have noticed a growth among the newcomers and those who have listened to Japanese music for more than 6 years]. 

a. NEW-1 YEAR: 44
b. 2-5 YEARS: 104
c. 6-10 YEARS: 29
d. 11 or MORE YEARS: 27

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E. HOW DID YOU GET INTERESTED IN  JAPANESE MUSIC?:
[The answers to how the Japanese music listener got interested in it is always interesting.  Anime has always been the dominating reason but in the last two years, the category of listeners who are getting introduced to it by friends and by television shows (international channel) has been growing]:

a. FRIEND/FAMILY/SIGNIFICANT OTHER: 41
b. ANIME: 57
c. TV/DORAMA/MOVIES/CM/RADIO/KARAOKE/MUSIC SHOW/CONCERT/VIDEOS/GAMES/MAGAZINES/ CELEBRITY: 63
d. SELF / CURIOSITY / EMOTIONAL / BOUGHT AND TRIED JAPANESE MUSIC: 27
e. STUDIES: 5
f. LIVING/VACATIONING IN JAPAN/ Learning Japanese / Love Japanese culture/ Work: 21
g. DON'T REMEMBER (or NOTHING): 1
h: INTERNET: 2
i: THE LYRICS: 1
j. FED UP OR BORED WITH OWN COUNTRY'S MUSIC: 7
k. WORKS IN THE JAPANESE MUSIC INDUSTRY: 1

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F. DO YOU SPEND A LOT OF MONEY ON JAPANESE MUSIC CD'S?:
[In 1999, there was a sudden increase of "NO" replies and we believe it has to do with the popularity of downloadable music on the Internet.]:

a. YES: 145
b. NO: 63

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G. WHAT STYLE OF JAPANESE MUSIC DO YOU  LISTEN TO?:
[In the five years of doing this report, we notice that people listen to everything and if they love rock/visual rock, the fans were very specific in letting you know]:

a. EVERYTHING: 110
b. ROCK/METAL/ALTERNATIVE/PUNK/VISUAL KEI: 47
c. SMOOTH/SLOW LOVE SONGS: 3
d. FOLK/WORLD BEAT / OKINAWAN/ FUSION: 4
e. POP /IDOL/ DANCE/ R&B/ EURO: 55
f.  SKA: 1
g. ENKA: 7
h. SLOW/ROMANTIC SONGS: 4
i. JAZZ/ACID JAZZ: 3
j. ANIME/VIDEO GAMES: 21
j. JAPANESE HIP HOP (RAP): 6
k. TECHNO /HOUSE/ DUB/ AMBIENT/ JUNGLE/ BOSSA NOVA/ HARD FUNK /EXPERIMENTAL/ [UNDERGROUND]: 14
l. (INDIE) INDEPENDENT ARTISTS: 4
m. REGGAE: 1
n. ACOUSTIC: 1

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H.  WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE JAPANESE MUSIC SHOW?:
[For several years, Music Station has dominated the report but with Hey! Hey! Hey! now being more accessible through the international type channels, Hey! Hey! Hey! Music Champ has now surpassed Music Station and we expect the gap to widen even more.]

a1. ASIA LIVE: 2
a2.  ASAYAN: 2
b1. THE BEST 10: 1
b2. BIG GIG JAPAN: 1
c1. COUNTDOWN TV: 17
d1. DAI-NI-KI: 1
e1. EARTH TO MTV: 1
f1. F.A.N. (FANTASTIC AMUSEMENT NIGHT): 2
h1. HEY! HEY! HEY! MUSIC CHAMP: 60
h2. HIT WAVE: 1
i1. IDOLS ON STAGE: 2
j1. JAPAN MUSIC STAGE: 1
j2. JAZZ KISSA: 1
j3. JPOP CAFE: 1
k1.  KOUHAKU UTA GASSEN: 3
m1. MUSIC STATION: 52
m2. MUSIC FAIR: 2
m3. MUSIC JOURNAL: 1
m4. MUSIC JUMP: 2
m5. MUSIC UPDATE TOKYO: 1
p1. POP JAM: 13
s1. SPLIT!: 1
s2.  SAIJOU! UTA NO DAIJITEN: 2
u1. UTABAN: 7
y1. YORUMO HIT PARADE: 12
y2. YORU NO HIT STUDIO: 5

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The following photo above is: (L) Utada Hikaru and (R) Kimura Takuya and Inagaki Goro

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