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(This page concerns the country Japan. For the rock band of the same name, see Japan(2)).

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Japan (Japanese: 日本 Nippon or Nihon; formally 日本国 Nippon-koku or Nihon-koku, "State of Japan") is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, the East China Sea, China, Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south. The kanji that make up Japan's name mean "sun origin", and it is often called the "Land of the Rising Sun".

Links To Peel

Capture-1507230051 — Radio 1 magazine article featuring Janice and John in Japan

Although a keen supporter of Japanese music, from the Sadistic Mika Band to Shonen Knife and Melt-Banana,^[1] Peel visited the country only once, in 1986, when he and Janice Long presented programmes from a Yamaha shop in Shibuya, Tokyo, called Janice & John In Japan, with JP acting as roving reporter. He also made a documentary for Radio One on the World Popular Song Festival, as well as recording a show called Suntory Sound Market for Tokyo FM, which was broadcast on 19 January 1987 (Suntory Sound Market). In Margrave Of The Marshes, the DJ recalled a visit to a karaoke bar in Tokyo, as well as telling a local record shop assistant that he was the Peel mentioned on the sleeves of Strange Fruit sessions releases:

"You are John Peel?" she gasped. I dimpled modestly and admitted it, whereupon she burst into tears. Whether these were tears of joy or disappointment, I've never been able to make up my mind.^[2]

Peel later claimed, on his 14 September 1999 show, that he immediately felt at home in Japan, more than he would have done somewhere like Leicester.

Bout-in-sumo-wrestling-photo 987286-fit468x296 — Sumo Wrestling in Japan

The DJ also enjoyed Japan's national sport, Sumo, as related on 21 October 1990:

"I'm a great fan of sumo wrestling on television. For a couple of years, it was quite fashionable: not quite sure that it's so fashionable now. I like it for lots of reasons, one of them being that it makes me feel positively svelte and actually really rather lovely and easy on the eye. Nobody else has actually confirmed this for me, but it does make me feel slightly better when I look at these chaps."

Peel was also acquainted with Kazuko Hohki, Japanese singer with Frank Chickens and Kahondo Style, who made a memorable appearance live in the studio with Peel on 17 July 1984 to play some Japanese records.^[3]

The distant Asian country also provided a wide range of Peel artists from other nations with ideas for names, including UK band Japan(2). Scottish lo-fi indie outfit Urusei Yatsura ("noisy guys") took their name from a Japanese manga series, while the controversial moniker of Rapeman came from the name of a popular Japanese comic book, and Nectarine No.9 was originally the name of a celebrated house of ill-repute in pre-modern Yokohama. Meanwhile, the misleadingly named Half Japanese had no Japanese members, with their name apparently chosen by chance[1]. Equally misnamed Liverpool cult outfit Big In Japan didn't find great popularity in the Far East.

Sessions

The following artists from Japan recorded sessions for the John Peel Show: ^[4]

Cornelius: (1 session, 1998)
Envy: (1 session, 2004)
eX-Girl: (1 session, 2000)
Frank Chickens^[5]: (6 sessions, 1983-1989)
Hyper Kinako^[6]: (1 session, 2003)
Maher Shalal Hash Baz: (1 session, 2003)
Masonna: (1 session, 1999)
Melt Banana: (2 sessions, 2001-2003)
Mono: (1 session, 2004)
Nelories: (1 session, 1993)
Polysics: (1 session, 2004)
Pop Off Tuesday^[7]: (1 session, 1999)
S.O.B.: (1 session, 1990)
Shonen Knife: (2 sessions, 1991-1992)
Stomu Yamashta's East Wind: (1 session, 1974)
Zeni Geva: (2 sessions, 1994-1995)

Festive Fifty

The following artists from Japan had Festive Fifty entries for the John Peel Show:

Asa-Chang & Junray: Hana #17 (2002 Festive Fifty)
Frank Chickens: Blue Canary #42 (1984 Festive Fifty)
Hyper Kinako: Tokyo Invention Registration Office #44 (2003 Festive Fifty)
Maher Shalal Hash Baz: Open Field #32 (2003 Festive Fifty)
Melt Banana: Stimulus For Revolting Virus #37 (1998 Festive Fifty) / Plot In A Pot #38 (1999 Festive Fifty) / Shield For Your Eyes #12 (2003 Festive Fifty)
Pop Off Tuesday: Unworldly #05 (1998 Festive Fifty)

Compilations

(Tracks played by Peel from various artist (v/a) compilations featuring music from Japan. Please add more information if known.)

(CD - Women's Liberation) Selfish Records

04 January 1992: Piss: Straight Line
05 January 1992: Piss: Fade Away
12 January 1992: Piss: Straight Line
18 January 1992: Wormcast: Vulgarity Jade
25 January 1992: Piss: Love Song
08 February 1992: Wormcast: Unknown
15 February 1992: Gaia: Psycho-Active
23 February 1992: Gush: Hell I
01 March 1992: Piss: Jasper
28 March 1992: Piss: Nightmare
04 August 1995: Piss: Fade Away
04 August 1995: Gaia: Psycho-Active
26 May 1998: Piss: Love Song
09 June 1998: Piss: Fade Away

(CD - The Rough Guide To The Music Of Japan) World Music Network

18 March 1999: Soul Flower Mononoke Summit: Fukko-Bushi

External Links

References

↑ He regularly asked acquaintances visiting the country to bring back records and often played these on his shows. All-female trio 5.6.7.8's were featured by Peel over a decade before they appeared in the 2003 Quentin Tarantino movie Kill Bill Vol. 1 and had a worldwide hit with 'Woo Hoo'. In an earlier era, Peel's Dandelion label released one single by faux Japanese combo Yamasukis.
↑ Margrave Of The Marshes, hardback, p70-6
↑ Hohki later hosted a TV chat show on Channel 4 called Kazuko's Karaoke Klub.
↑ Session bands with just one Japanese member include Can, who had Damo Suzuki on vocals for all their Peel sessions, while Lush guitarist Miki Berenyi is of mixed Japanese and Hungarian parentage. The Faces did not have any sessions after Tetsu Yamauchi replaced Ronnie Lane on bass. British musician Morgan Fisher moved to Japan in 1985, after playing on sessions by Medicine Head and British Lions.
↑ Japanese vocalists backed by British musicians, based in the UK.
↑ Mixed Anglo-Japanese band, based in the UK.
↑ Both of the band's members were Japanese but based in the UK.

[1] He regularly asked acquaintances visiting the country to bring back records and often played these on his shows. All-female trio 5.6.7.8's were featured by Peel over a decade before they appeared in the 2003 Quentin Tarantino movie Kill Bill Vol. 1 and had a worldwide hit with 'Woo Hoo'. In an earlier era, Peel's Dandelion label released one single by faux Japanese combo Yamasukis.

[2] Margrave Of The Marshes, hardback, p70-6

[3] Hohki later hosted a TV chat show on Channel 4 called Kazuko's Karaoke Klub.

[4] Session bands with just one Japanese member include Can, who had Damo Suzuki on vocals for all their Peel sessions, while Lush guitarist Miki Berenyi is of mixed Japanese and Hungarian parentage. The Faces did not have any sessions after Tetsu Yamauchi replaced Ronnie Lane on bass. British musician Morgan Fisher moved to Japan in 1985, after playing on sessions by Medicine Head and British Lions.

[5] Japanese vocalists backed by British musicians, based in the UK.

[6] Mixed Anglo-Japanese band, based in the UK.

[7] Both of the band's members were Japanese but based in the UK.

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 == Links To Peel ==
 [[File:Capture-1507230051.JPG|thumb|298x298px|Radio 1 magazine article featuring Janice and John in Japan]]
-Although a keen supporter of Japanese music, from the [[Sadistic Mika Band]] to [[Shonen Knife]] and [[Melt-Banana]],<ref>He regularly asked acquaintances visiting the country to bring back records and often played these on his shows. All-female trio [[5.6.7.8's]] were featured by Peel over a decade before they appeared in the 2003 Quentin Tarantino movie ''Kill Bill Vol. 1'' and had a worldwide hit with 'Woo Hoo'. In an earlier era, Peel's [[Dandelion]] label released one single by faux Japanese combo [[Yamasukis]].</ref> Peel visited the country only once, in 1986, when he and [[Janice Long]] presented programmes from a Yamaha shop in Shibuya, Tokyo, called [[Janice & John In Japan]], with JP acted as roving reporter. He also made a documentary for Radio One on the [[Peel At The World Popular Song Festival In Japan|World Popular Song Festival]]. In [[Margrave Of The Marshes]], the DJ recalled a visit to a karaoke bar in Tokyo, as well as telling a local record shop assistant that he was the Peel mentioned on the sleeves of [[Strange Fruit]] sessions releases:
+Although a keen supporter of Japanese music, from the [[Sadistic Mika Band]] to [[Shonen Knife]] and [[Melt-Banana]],<ref>He regularly asked acquaintances visiting the country to bring back records and often played these on his shows. All-female trio [[5.6.7.8's]] were featured by Peel over a decade before they appeared in the 2003 Quentin Tarantino movie ''Kill Bill Vol. 1'' and had a worldwide hit with 'Woo Hoo'. In an earlier era, Peel's [[Dandelion]] label released one single by faux Japanese combo [[Yamasukis]].</ref> Peel visited the country only once, in 1986, when he and [[Janice Long]] presented programmes from a Yamaha shop in Shibuya, Tokyo, called [[Janice & John In Japan]], with JP acting as roving reporter. He also made a documentary for Radio One on the [[Peel At The World Popular Song Festival In Japan|World Popular Song Festival]], as well as recording a show called [[Suntory Sound Market]] for [[Tokyo FM]], which was broadcast on [[19 January 1987 (Suntory Sound Market)]]. In [[Margrave Of The Marshes]], the DJ recalled a visit to a karaoke bar in Tokyo, as well as telling a local record shop assistant that he was the Peel mentioned on the sleeves of [[Strange Fruit]] sessions releases:
 <blockquote>''"You are John Peel?" she gasped. I dimpled modestly and admitted it, whereupon she burst into tears. Whether these were tears of joy or disappointment, I've never been able to make up my mind.''<ref>[[Margrave Of The Marshes]], hardback, p70-6</ref></blockquote>
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 Peel later claimed, on his [[14 September 1999]] show, that he immediately felt at home in Japan, more than he would have done somewhere like Leicester.
 [[File:Bout-in-sumo-wrestling-photo 987286-fit468x296.jpg|thumb|250x250px|Sumo Wrestling in Japan]]
-The DJ also enjoyed Japan's national sport, as related on [[21 October 1990]]:
+The DJ also enjoyed Japan's national sport, [[Sumo]], as related on [[21 October 1990]]:
-<blockquote>''"I'm a great fan of sumo wrestling on television. For a couple of years, it was quite fashionable: not quite sure that it's so fashionable now. I like it for lots of reasons, one of them being that it makes me feel positively svelte and actually really rather lovely and easy on the eye. Nobody else has actually confirmed this for me, but it does make me feel slightly better when I look at these chaps. In the last basho that was televised, I can never remember the names of the participants, which is embarrassing, because I want to be able to trot them off and really impress you, But there was a ''yokozuna'' who kind of disgraced himself by losing more contests than he won. If you do that, you have to kind of volunteer for oblivion, is my understanding of it. You have to kind of...go to the governing body of the sport as it were, and apply to be sacked. It's terribly grim, and I wonder what became of him, because he's a man I rather liked when I heard him being interviewed."''<ref>The disgraced yokozuna was presumably Futahaguro (aka Kitao), who left sumo at the end of 1987. (See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%8Dji_Kitao Wikipedia.])</ref></blockquote>
+<blockquote>''"I'm a great fan of sumo wrestling on television. For a couple of years, it was quite fashionable: not quite sure that it's so fashionable now. I like it for lots of reasons, one of them being that it makes me feel positively svelte and actually really rather lovely and easy on the eye. Nobody else has actually confirmed this for me, but it does make me feel slightly better when I look at these chaps."''</blockquote>
 Peel was also acquainted with Kazuko Hohki, Japanese singer with [[Frank Chickens]] and [[Kahondo Style]], who made a memorable appearance live in the studio with Peel on [[17 July 1984]] to play some Japanese records.<ref>Hohki later hosted a TV chat show on Channel 4 called Kazuko's Karaoke Klub.</ref>
+The distant Asian country also provided a wide range of Peel artists from other nations with ideas for names, including UK band [[Japan(2)]]. Scottish lo-fi indie outfit [[Urusei Yatsura]] ("noisy guys") took their name from a Japanese manga series, while the controversial moniker of [[Rapeman]] came from the name of a popular Japanese comic book, and [[Nectarine No.9]] was originally the name of a celebrated house of ill-repute in pre-modern Yokohama. Meanwhile, the misleadingly named [[Half Japanese]] had no Japanese members, with their name apparently chosen by chance[http://www.sacurrent.com/sa-sound/archives/2014/12/22/a-qanda-with-jad-fair-of-half-japanese?page=2]. Equally misnamed [[Liverpool (city)|Liverpool]] cult outfit [[Big In Japan]] didn't find great popularity in the Far East.
 == Sessions ==
-The following artists from Japan recorded sessions for the John Peel Show: <ref>Session bands with just one Japanese member include [[Can]], who had Damo Suzuki on vocals for all their Peel sessions, while [[Lush]] guitarist Miki Berenyi is of mixed Japanese and Hungarian parentage. The [[Faces]] did not have any sessions after Tetsu Yamauchi replaced Ronnie Lane on bass. The misleadingly named [[Half Japanese]] had no Japanese members (the name was apparently chosen by chance[http://www.sacurrent.com/sa-sound/archives/2014/12/22/a-qanda-with-jad-fair-of-half-japanese?page=2]). Equally misnamed [[Liverpool (city)|Liverpool]] cult outfit [[Big In Japan]] also had no Japanese members. Scottish lo-fi indie band [[Urusei Yatsura]] (3 sessions, 1995-97) took their name from a Japanese manga series. British musician [[Morgan Fisher]] moved to Japan in 1985, after playing on sessions by [[Medicine Head]] and [[British Lions]].</ref>
+The following artists from Japan recorded sessions for the John Peel Show: <ref>Session bands with just one Japanese member include [[Can]], who had Damo Suzuki on vocals for all their Peel sessions, while [[Lush]] guitarist Miki Berenyi is of mixed Japanese and Hungarian parentage. The [[Faces]] did not have any sessions after Tetsu Yamauchi replaced Ronnie Lane on bass. British musician [[Morgan Fisher]] moved to Japan in 1985, after playing on sessions by [[Medicine Head]] and [[British Lions]].</ref>
-*[[Boredoms]]: (1 session, 1995)
 *[[Cornelius]]: (1 session, 1998)
 *[[Envy]]: (1 session, 2004)
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 * [[Melt Banana]]: Stimulus For Revolting Virus '''#37''' ([[1998 Festive Fifty]]) / Plot In A Pot '''#38''' ([[1999 Festive Fifty]]) / Shield For Your Eyes '''#12''' ([[2003 Festive Fifty]])
 * [[Pop Off Tuesday]]: Unworldly '''#05''' ([[1998 Festive Fifty]])
+== Compilations ==
+(Tracks played by Peel from various artist (v/a) compilations featuring music from Japan. Please add more information if known.)
+(CD - [https://www.discogs.com/Various-Womens-Liberation/release/2345944 Women's Liberation]) Selfish Records
+*[[04 January 1992]]: [[Piss]]: Straight Line
+*[[05 January 1992]]: [[Piss]]: Fade Away
+*[[12 January 1992]]: [[Piss]]: Straight Line
+*[[18 January 1992]]: [[Wormcast]]: Vulgarity Jade
+*[[25 January 1992]]: [[Piss]]: Love Song
+*[[08 February 1992]]: [[Wormcast]]: '''Unknown'''
+*[[15 February 1992]]: [[Gaia]]: Psycho-Active
+*[[23 February 1992]]: [[Gush]]: Hell I
+*[[01 March 1992]]: [[Piss]]: Jasper
+*[[28 March 1992]]: [[Piss]]: Nightmare
+*[[04 August 1995]]: [[Piss]]: Fade Away
+*[[04 August 1995]]: [[Gaia]]: Psycho-Active
+*[[26 May 1998]]: [[Piss]]: Love Song
+*[[09 June 1998]]: [[Piss]]: Fade Away
+(CD - [https://www.discogs.com/Various-The-Rough-Guide-To-The-Music-Of-Japan/release/7450637 The Rough Guide To The Music Of Japan]) World Music Network
+*[[18 March 1999]]: [[Soul Flower Mononoke Summit]]: Fukko-Bushi
 == See Also ==
+*[[Tokyo FM]]
+*[[Suntory Sound Market]]
 *[[Boris]]
+*[[Gerogerigegege]]
 *[[Mayumi Chiwaki]]
 *[[Manekineko Kagekidan]]
 *[[Yoko Ono]]
+*[[Orchids(4)|Orchids]]
+*[[Pink]]
 *[[Piss]]
 *[[Petty Booka]]
+*[[Polysics]]
+*[[54 Nude Honeys]]
 *[[Ryuichi Sakamoto]]
 *[[Peel At The World Popular Song Festival In Japan]]
+*[[Sumo]]
 *[[John Peel Around The World]]
+*[[Countries]]
+*[[Boredoms]]
+*[[OOIOO]]
 == External Links ==
-* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan Wikipedia]
+*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan Wikipedia]
 *[http://web.archive.org/web/20130530115518/http://www.johnpeelcentreforcreativearts.co.uk/index.php/john-peel-archive/item/87-john-peels-hidden-gems-no-19-b2-unit John Peel Center (John Peel's Hidden Gems No. 19): Ryuichi Sakamoto - B2 Unit]
+== References ==
-;Footnotes
 <references />
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 [[Category:Maps]]
 [[Category:Countries]]
+[[Category:Compilations]]