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1960s student folk movement and contemporary Japanese popular music such as J-pop, city pop and anime music, to Japanese classical and contemporary art music by composers such as Toru Takemitsu, the experimental Japanoise scene and onkyokei, a quiet improvised music that emerged in Tokyo around the late 1990s.", "what_it_is_for": "Cultural expression and entertainment.", "affordances": [ "explain traditions and genres", "relay history", "describe named genres", "distinguish related categories" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Ancient court traditions", "Distinctive instruments", "Large popular music industry", "Influential experimental scenes" ], "appearance": "Not a visible object; heard in performance, recordings and media.", "visual_identification": [ "Music traditions and industries of Japan", "Heikyoku, contemporary Japanese music, Japanese classical music, onkyokei, Japanoise, college folk", "East Asian music includes China and Korea; anime music is a use context; Western genres 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