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Sizing up China: Japanese women fueling wave of Chinese pop culture boom
09/03/2007
Source: KCIFC Philippines
BY KIM HAN IL, STAFF WRITER
Editor'snote: This is part of a series on the growing influence ofChina inbilateral relations as well as Chinese communities in Japan.
ErimoTsurui has watched a movie 13 times mainly because of itsHongKong-born co-star and once viewed Chinese television dramas for40straight hours in a marathon session.
The mother of twodaughters also learned to play the erhu, a traditionaltwo-stringedChinese instrument, and mastered the lyrics of Chinesesongs from avariety of genres.
Tsurui's obsession with Chinese pop culturehelped to propel her tovictory in the 10th Japan-China Karaoke Meet inMay. There, she crooneda chanson-style, slow Chinese song whilestrumming on the erhu.
"Chinese pop music is cooler than that from the United States," the39-year-old Tokyo resident said. "Fast andhot numbers like rap andhip-hop are particularly good."
Music,dramas and movies from China and Taiwan have caught on inJapan,particularly among women in their 30s through 50s. The trend,known ashualiu, comes on the heels of hanryu, the boom of Korean popculture.
In both booms, good-looking young men have played important roles.
"Ilike slit-eyed men like Chinese and Koreans," said Tsurui, whocarrieswith her a scrapbook filled with pictures of her idols,including Van Ness Wu of Taiwan's four-member group F4, and WangLee-hom, a Taiwanese-American singer-songwriter and actor.
She is also a huge fan of John Lone, the Hong Kong-born actor who co-starred in the 1995 melodrama "Year of the Dragon."
F4is widely credited with bringing the hualiu wave to Japan afterwinningpopularity in other Asian countries. The group was formed for"MeteorGarden," a 2001 Taiwanese TV drama based on a popular Japanesecomic.
Now, Chinese celebrities have become an increasing presence in Japan, as well as Chinese music in TV commercials and CD stores.
The trend has been underscored at the Japan-China Karaoke Meet, held annually in Tokyo's Nerima Ward since 1998.
The contest features two divisions: one for Japanese singing Chinese songs and the other for Chinese singing Japanese tunes.
"Thevariety of songs that Japanese participants sing is becoming wideryearby year," said Hu Wenjuan, director of Japan-China CommunicationCo., aTokyo-based publisher and organizer of the contest. "Japanese cannowperform any genre of Chinese music. It's amazing."
The number of Japanese participants, which was about 50 each in the first three years, topped 200 in 2005.
SuntoryLtd. has familiarized Japanese TV viewers with Chinese words initslong-running commercial series for oolong tea. The ads featuredpopularJapanese and Western tunes with Chinese lyrics.
"Chai," a CDcollection of selected songs used in the commercials, suchas "Like aVirgin," "Astro Boy" and "Shanghai Boogie Woogie," has soldmore than150,000 copies since its release in 2003.
Kaoru Kasai, artdirector at advertising agency Sun-Ad Co., said thecompany used"Itsudemo Yume o," a 1962 Japanese duet song, for Suntory'sfirstoolong-tea commercial featuring Chinese lyrics.
Suntory hadrejected the agency's initial proposal to use "BeautifulDreamer," aStephen Foster classic, saying it wanted a more vibrant tune.
"Thecommercial, aired in 1992, caught on with viewers regardless oftheirage," Kasai said. "Senior audiences longed for their youthfuldays, andchildren were amused by the language's accents."
Amin, asinger-songwriter from Shanghai, sang several tunesfor the oolong-teacommercials for three years from 2003, includingYellow MagicOrchestra's "Rydeen."
"When I came to Japan in 1992, I neverimagined that I would sing a songin Chinese," said Amin, whose realname is Wu Huimin. "I was asked tosing in Japanese even though I wasable to speak only a few words."
She said today's young Japanesehave naturally embraced music withChinese lyrics. Her two solo albumsreleased in Japan include manytracks she sings entirely in Chinese.
Atthe HMV store in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, the shelf space for CDs andDVDsfeaturing Taiwanese and Chinese artists has doubled over thepastseveral years.
Sales of those CDs and DVDs account for arespectable 1.5 percent of thestore's overall sales, which includeclassical, jazz and pop, accordingto Yukiko Kojima, who works at thestore's world music section.
She said women in their 30s through50s have rediscovered in youngTaiwanese musicians and actors both"freshness and comfort," somethingthey can hardly expect fromcontemporary Japanese artists.
The Chinese entertainment boom inJapan has more or less stabilized overthe past two years, failing togain the momentum seen in the hanryucraze.
Still, longtimehualiu fan Yumiko Muroi, who spends hours browsing Websites on Chineseentertainment in the morning and at night, said thingscould pick upagain.
New stars have been born, such as Fahrenheit, often referred to as the most successful Taiwanese group after F4.
Fahrenheit's four young men are promoting Suntory's C.C. Lemon soft drink in TV commercials in Taiwan.
Muroi,43, said Japanese fans are lobbying to have the group performatShibuya C.C. Lemon Hall in Tokyo, a concert hall that changed itsnamefrom Shibuya Public Hall after Suntory bought its naming rightsfromthe ward government.
There have also been rumors that F4'sJerry Yan has signed a contractwith Johnny & Associates, theJapanese company that manages thepopular SMAP group here. Yan is oftencompared to SMAP's Takuya Kimura.
For some like Tsurui, the karaoke contest winner, her affection for Chinese pop culture needs no boost.
Anative of the Goto Islands in Nagasaki Prefecture, Tsurui inherchildhood often traveled across the sea with her family toNagasaki,which hosts one of Japan's largest Chinatowns.
Now she will seethe real thing. The first prize will take Tsurui andher family toShanghai on a three-day trip in October.(IHT/Asahi:September 3,2007)
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Post time 5-9-2007 05:20 PM
.xiao s suruh chun pose cara model ..tp ..chun pi tiru pose seseorangg...
.pada minit ke 5..tgk masa ella palingkan belakang dia..haha..sejibik macam yg chun nak buat tu laa..ades..ekeke.
