There has been some debate between the three of us as to whether Japan deserve to be categorized as a Post Punk band. They did start their life in 1974 as an almost glam rock outfit looking like the New York Dolls playing a kind of punk/funk hybrid. They then went through various changes in look, style and performance and unwittingly (much to their chagrin) spearheaded the ‘New Romantic’ movement in the early Eighties. But their music became much admired at this time due to it’s unique instrumentation, the cool slick vocal delivery of David Sylvian and the amazing fretless bass of Mick Karn that made them stand out from so many of their contemporaries.

There was never anyone like them, and there has been no one like them since.

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